[mythtv] Subject for my last message: PVR 250 Audio
Jim Paris
jim at jtan.com
Sat Apr 19 14:14:55 EDT 2003
> After unloading all the drivers and then re-loading them, my audio has
> returned! (I know this sounds strange). Audio just goes away after a few
> minutes, then returns after a driver rmmod, insmod.
Interesting. I will play with that.
> My CPU usage is very similar to yours but I don't see any improvement at
> lower resolutions. Will play with it over the weekend as well.
My CPU usage hangs around 50%, but my load average is around 1.5,
which could suggest a process is blocking on I/O and that I'm actually
being limited by the hard drive. I don't understand that at all. I'm
running a UDMA66 drive and everything's enabled; I even tried enabling
the wcache but saw no improvement. A
dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1K count=1M
gives a sustained data rate of about 7MB/sec, well above the 2MB/sec
data rate coming out of the card. Either mythtv is doing something
silly when writing to disk, or there's some other I/O issue on my
machine (sound card?) and it's time to start swapping out hardware to
figure out where.
-jim
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