[mythtv-users] Howto prevent MythTV flushing/Syncing disk writes (LiveTV/Recordings)

[David Schmidt]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Steve Smith <st3v3.sm1th at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 19/03/2008, Mark Boyum <circushair at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > On 3/18/08, Albert Graham <agraham at g-b.net> wrote:
>  > > Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
>  > > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Albert Graham wrote:
>  > > >
>  > > >
>  > > >> I think when people setup MythTV backend they'd rather use modern
>  > > >> powerful hardware (as best they can afford).
>  > > >>
>  > > >
>  > > > Speak for yourself : I would rather use whatever I can scrounge up for
>  > free
>  > > > that will do the job. :-)
>  > > >
>  > > > And I did.
>  > > >
>  > > Christopher,
>  > >
>  > > You're clearly a resourceful man :), but I know what you mean, I have
>  > > about 40 CDROM drives, 100's of old hard drives, tons of multi-function
>  > > cards, millions of network cards etc.., but then you change your
>  > > motherboard or something and they're all useless, but that's progress
>  > > for you.
>  > >
>  > > I think MythTV is one of the very best apps out there and well worth
>  > > investing in good hardware - which hopefully will last a few years
>  > > before it's on the scrap heap.
>  > >
>  > > Albert.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
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>  >
>  >
>  > I have gone Christopher's route.  Mythtv has certainly transformed how we
>  > watch television in our house, but it would never have happened it didn't
>  > run well on my old hardware.  I think it is a great application to help keep
>  > old machines out of the scrap heap longer.  My current combo BE/FE is a six
>  > or seven year old PC that can record two sd streams and play a third without
>  > a hitch.
>  >
>  > Likewise, when I start doing HD playback I intend to make my current desktop
>  > (four years old) a dedicated frontend.
>  >
>  > Sorry for the useless list traffic, I just wanted to let Christopher know
>  > that he isn't alone running MythtTV on dated hardware.
>  >
>  > -Mark
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>  >
>  Me too!!! P3 933Mhz and proud of it!  On the backend at least Myth
>  doesn't/shouldn't really need fancy hardware. And the same goes for
>  the frontend if you're SD only like me.
>
>  However, Myth should be able to take advantage of newer hardware where
>  it can, so a configurable buffer would be good for some.
>
>  Cheers
>  Steve

Ditto here!!

When I (some day, I promise!! (-;) build my real production system, I
plan to over-spec it by 50% or so to allow growth, but I'd probably
never have started if I couldn't have used my old P3/450 clunker with
just the outlay for a PVR-350.