[mythtv-users] How MANY backend threads!?!?!?

[Mark Small]

> >  With 0.23 I'm getting much higher CPU usage when recording (avg 30-40%
> >  on my P3 900Mhz, previously about 10-20% on 0.21).
> >  This means I can't do "chase play" which I used to be able to do.
>
> so, you said that your 2000/2001-vintage hardware is having problems
> running modern MythTV.  Therefore, don't run modern MythTV (or upgrade
> your hardware).
>
> Some of us don't like the idea of constraining modern MythTV to only the
> basic tasks that can be accomplished with 10-yr old hardware.
>
> Some of us want MythTV to do more than it did in 0.21.
>
> Some of us want progress.
>
> Those of you who want your grandfather's MythTV--unhampered by
> progress--can get exactly that by running your grandfather's version of
> MythTV.
>
> Mike
>

Some of us also want to run mythtv on new low power boxes that are coming out 
these days.  My own MBE is an ARM based NAS with only 512 MB of RAM.  If myth 
could be tuned to run better on old machines, it would also run better on new 
boxes that only draw a small amount of power.

Mark