[mythtv-users] Best Way to Run Commercial Detection Jobs Not On Master Backend

[Drew Tomlinson]

I've been running a combo front/backend on an Athlon dual core box for 
many years.  It works but it's a bit low powered for commercial 
detection jobs, especially for HD streams.

I've recently replaced an old P3 600 mhz unix server with a Xeon based 
processor and have built a VMWare ESXi host.  I plan on rebuilding my 
old server as a VM on this box.  However I will have a lot of available 
CPU power here and wondered about building another VM who's sole purpose 
is to take some of the commercial detection load off of my master backend.

I'm not sure how to do this.  At first I assumed I would need to build a 
slave backend.  However I have seen other threads that talk about there 
being no reason to build a  slave backend unless there are tuners 
attached as mythjobqueue can provide the function with much less overhead.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this started?  I have 
built a VM with Mythbuntu, choosing the slave backend option, but don't 
really know how to get it to help with commercial detection jobs on the 
master.

Thanks,

Drew