[mythtv-users] Dual processor any help?

[Cory Papenfuss]

 	AFAIK, neither trancoding or nuvexport inherently benefit from 
dual processors (not threaded).  Having run mythtv on a dual Celeron 
300->450 and dual PIII 750->933, I can say that it helps for playability 
under load.  The playback load is split between mythfrontend and X so it's 
"threaded" of sorts.  As far as flat-out CPU speed, I don't think it'll 
help unless there's other things going on at the same time.

-Cory

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, John Williams wrote:

> My myth FE/BE combined is a dual proc Intel P3 capable machine. I have
> a single 933 Mhz P3 in it now and was wondering if the adding the
> second proc would add any transcoding or nuvexport benefit. Right now
> I ran an nuvexport and the darn thing took all night to do a 1 hour
> show. obviously I don't want to archive my shows at that rate.
>
> I also plan on adding 2 front end machines to work with this back end.
>
> Any comments would be apprecitated.
>


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* Cory Papenfuss							*
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
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