[mythtv-users] Are there any throttling features in Mythtv?

[Mike Perkins]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 09:13:18 Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> Other tasks, such as commflagging, transcoding, watching recordings,
>> mythfilldatabase etc. will effect your load. Most likely your disk I/O will
>> give up the ghost first, at least that's what I discovered. I went with a
>> RAID0 array to improve the disk performance, and that helped a lot.
> 
> 
> Another quick and common suggest is to keep your database on a separate
> drive from your recordings.  There is alot of I/O going to/from the DB
> during recordings, commflagging, and playback.
> 
Thanks, guys. I know backend tasks like commflagging, etc will impact what any 
system can do. That will add to the input + output calculation I suggested 
elsewhere.

I have also been keeping my mysql database on a different drive. I have two 
identical recording drives. I wanted to get to a situation of 1 drive (or more) 
per tuner, but the finances won't allow that yet. Actually, if money were no 
object, I'd have one mobo + drive per tuner, probably all in 1U rack cases, but 
that's not going to happen this side of hell freezing over, so I have to go with 
what I've got.

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Mike Perkins