[mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

[Illtud Daniel]

Greg,

> LOL - fantastic!  Lend me one and I'll tell you :-)

:)  I'll have to buy it first. We've some dual opteron
systems we can start testing on.

> Most "servers" could probably handle lots of DVB cards, as this is
> only PCI bandwidth and disk IO speed.  PCI bus is probably you next
> problem as disk IO is not usually an issue.

Big Boxes generally have multiple PCI buses, so that may not
be a problem.

> I would think that a quad CPU box will easily transcode 4 programs,
> but you did not ask how long it would take?

Well, we've a shuttle box testing here which is a few years
old, and it's managing about 70% realtime on transcoding, so
I'm guessing the opterons could go a bit faster!

> Linux clustering should be able to remove the SPOF of the backend -
> you would also need to cluster the DB and NFS parts.

Red Hat does a nice cluster suite, but I doubt if RHEL4 would
be the easiest system to install myth on without breaking
too much RHN etc.

Thanks for your help, Greg.

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Illtud Daniel                                 illtud.daniel at llgc.org.uk
Uwch Ddadansoddwr Systemau                       Senior Systems Analyst
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru                  National Library of Wales
Yn siarad drosof fy hun, nid LlGC   -  Speaking personally, not for NLW