[mythtv-users] nfs pauses

[David Brodbeck]

On Fri, November 13, 2009 11:22 am, Yianni Vidalis wrote:
> There was no extra cpu activity during the pauses. Also, the network
> activity was flat when no pause was occuring (nothing else was moving from
> or to the nfs server). The pauses occur when mythtv fetches the next piece
> of the video (or when the nfs client does). You can see my description on
> my first post, if you'd like.

OK, figured it was worth a shot.

Last time I had a problem like that it turned out to be a flaky network
card.  Under heavy load it would drop a few packets, then NFS would sit
around waiting for RPC retries.