[mythtv-users] Suspend options with mythtv

James C. Dastrup jc at dastrup.com
Wed Jan 11 19:51:48 UTC 2006


>HI everybody,
>
>I've been thinking about the things that still bother me about my mythtv
>setup, and the worst one is definately boot time on the frontend.  It takes
>my P3-733 a couple of minutes to boot fully in to mythtv. 
>
>I was hoping that some sort of hibernation/suspend to disk setup would help me
>with this. 
>
>Does anyone out there do this sort of  thing?  Any mythtv related caveats? 
>How about root over NFS?
>
>My system has a hard drive that I boot from, and then spin down.  I suppose I
>could spin it back up to do the suspend to disk... 
>
>How much faster would a resume be than a full boot?
>
>Mark
>
 
I've done this using Suspend2 (http://www.suspend2.net/) and it works just fine
suspending to disk. Definitely speeds up the boot-up process.

I haven't been able to get it working with my P3 HT frontend, since it doesn't
seem to like SMP, although it's supposed to work.
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