[mythtv-users] Short recordings (SOLVED)

[Kyle Rose]

"Jason Ramey" <webmaster at permutation.org> writes:

> Is this a 2.6 kernel you are referring to? I have this same problem and
> looked in /proc/sys/vm/ but dirty_writeback_centisecs did not exist. Using
> debian unstable & ivtv.

Sorry, I missed this post.

Yes, it's a 2.6 kernel I'm referring to.  You can achieve the same
thing on 2.4 by changing the (I believe) 6th number in
/proc/sys/vm/bdflush to 100.  I did this with:

BDFLUSH="`cat /proc/sys/vm/bdflush`"
echo "${BDFLUSH}" | awk '{ print $1 " " $2 " " $3 " " $4 " " $5 " 100 " $7 " " $8 " " $9 " " $10; }' > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush

but I don't know awk very well, and there may be a better way to do
this. :)

Cheers,
Kyle