[mythtv-users] Anyone using arm with mythbackend?

[Raymond Wagner]

On Aug 20, 2013, at 8:06, tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> {Sorry it got away on me as a premature...!}
> Can someone comment on the possibility of using an ARM device as a low power always on backend which turns on and off a high power slave backend to do the CPU grunt as and when required?
> I realise a backend can alternatively be configured to turn itself on and off however that can also be problematic and each approach would have their own pros and cons.

Any backend would require the database, which means you're running the database on that same low performance system.  A considerable portion of the CPU grunt required is in a single database query performed by the scheduler.