[mythtv-users] mythbackend stability on SMP systems

[Iain Buchanan]

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 17:11 -0500, David Engel wrote:
> A few years ago, I had to disable hyperthreading on my P4-based
> production backend to keep mythbackend from segfaulting because of
> non-threadsafety in Qt.  I kept SMP disabled when I moved my
> production backend to an X2 system eariler this year since I wanted
> reliablity more than I needed the extra CPU power.
> 
> I would now like to make use of that extra CPU power, so I'm curious
> how stable mythbackend, both 0.2 and trunk, is these days on SMP
> hardware.

I'm running a single front-end back-end together on a P4 HT 3.0GHz
laptop using a USB DVB-T HD tuner.  I've never had any problems with
segfaults, although I'm still setting it up so it doesn't get too much
use yet.

I'm running mythtv-0.21_p20877 on Gentoo with an ATI 9600 X10 using open
source ati drivers.

cya,
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