[mythtv-users] SUPER slow I/O on storage drive

Travis Tabbal travis at tabbal.net
Tue Nov 9 15:40:15 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Christopher Meredith
<chmeredith at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> So the filesystem isn't the problem and it looks like the drive isn't the
> problem. I can't imagine the software would be the problem because VLC,
> XBMC, Xine, and mplayer all have buffering problems while playing my these
> recordings also. And some of the recordings are ATSC, some are from the
> HD-PVR. These are just data dumps from the devices; there's no processing by
> the backend.
>
> I've got to be missing something. What should I check next?
>


Controller port? How is the speed on the local machine with a disk
benchmark? What else is running on that machine and drive?  If the local
speed test is OK, how about a network speed test without the drive?
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