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

Stephen P. Villano stephen.p.villano at gmail.com
Wed Jan 29 03:40:22 UTC 2014


On 1/28/14, 9:54 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/28/2014 12:45 PM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
>> On 1/28/14, 8:57 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> On 01/28/2014 08:20 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>> On 01/27/14 23:15, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
>>>>> On 1/28/14, 12:49 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>>>> On 01/27/14 20:09, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>>>>>> On the master, but for the slave it doesn't matter.
>>>>>> If you're recording on your slave backend (and you should be,
>>>>>> because
>>>>>> otherwise there's no reason to have a slave backend), then frontends
>>>>>> must be able to connect to it to stream recordings made on it.
>>>>>>
>>>>> My slave BE is more for additional storage. The machine is far slower
>>>>> than my primary BE and it has far less RAM.
>>>>> Most of my heavy data handling is done from the primary BE.
>>>> Ideally, rather than run another full backend, you would just run
>>>> mythmediaserver. However it seems it may be suffering code rot, and
>>>> crashes at the end of a file transfer.
>>> Or, if it's just for storage, NFS or CIFS (which actually allow
>>> writing as well as reading)...
>> True. Initially, I had it set up for NFS, read-write.
>> But, this way leaves me with additional processing ability, as that is
>> an older dual Xeon processor workstation.
>> So, I get the best of both worlds.
>> I can transcode on both, lowering total transcode time for multiple
>> programs.
>>
>> Architecture:
>> Dell 2850 primary BE
>> Dell Precision 530-MT secondary BE
>> Varied FE's.
>
> I'd still recommend NFS for read/write storage and mythjobqueue for
> running jobs.  It's literally 1/10 the resources of running a remote
> backend (not to mention the whole mythbackend expects to have tuners
> part).
>
> That said, you'll need to get backend configuration finished,
> regardless, as configuring mythjobqueue takes exactly the same
> configuration as configuring mythbackend (the only difference is which
> application you run when you finish configuring).
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
I did forget to mention the HDHR Prime as my primary tuner on the BE.  :)
I do have NFS shares for further additional storage, some "living" on
some of the FE's that have large amounts of unused space.



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