[mythtv-users] Playback problem -- random short pauses

Don Lewis dl-mythtv at catspoiler.org
Mon May 23 18:05:32 UTC 2011


On 23 May, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 11-05-23 12:17 AM, Zuriel wrote:
>> I've been having intermittent issues with video playback pausing briefly.
> ..
>> My google-fu has been too weak to find something resembling Win7's resource
>> monitor, which can show disk activity per process and which files are being
>> accessed how heavily. I might try moving the mysql database to a different drive
>> to see if the excessive utilization follows it to the new drive.
> 
> Are the write-caches enabled on all drives?
> 
> (hdparm -W)

Yes.

I forgot to mention that my storage directories are on drives formatted
with JFS.



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