[mythtv-users] RT : OT: Load Average much higher in Mythbuntu 12.04 rather then Fedora 12 (Mythdora)

Anthony Giggins seven at seven.dorksville.net
Sat Oct 27 01:17:19 UTC 2012


On 22 October 2012 21:24, Adam Skinner <kingmoffa at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I recently (a few weeks ago) replaced an aging Fedora 12 (Mythdora)
> install
> > with Mythbuntu 12.04, and I've noticed the Load average is quite alot
> > higher then on the previous OS.
> > Please note the hardware changed very little with the exception of the OS
> > no longer being on 2 old 30GB + 36GB drives in a software mirror and is
> now
> > on a 500GB Hiatchi SATA3 drive, please see the graph below the install
> was
> > between Week 39 and 40.
> > I know this is mostly OT but there are alot of very switched on people
> who
> > may know why the change, please note CPU and memory usage has changed
> very
> > little...
>
>
>
> For whats it worth , I found my load average was higher when i
> switched over to mythbuntu 12.04 as well. For me it was the move from
> ext3 to ext4 on the OS partition with the mysql database, especially
> the write heavy recorded seek table. There are some mount options you
> can apply , but they are said to be risky in event of power failure.
> Barrier , commit interval , xattr and writeback.
>
>
Thanks for that, I forgot back those ext4/mysql issues Migrated my
mythbuntu install back to my software Raid partition with ext3 rather then
ext4

Load averages are back to normal.

[image: mythtv - Load Average]

Cheers,

Anthony
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