[mythtv-users] How well does MythTV use threads?

[Alex Malinovich]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 01:35 -0400, Geoff Mishkin wrote:
> First of all, I'm pretty sure a Core 2 Duo will out-perform any kind of
> Pentium 4.
> 
> That being said, if it's just a frontend machine, a fast Pentium 4
> should be enough.  In this case, I don't really think MythTV is doing
> more than one CPU-intensive thing at once anyway.
> 
> I don't know about MythTV's internal use of threads, but I think there's
> a setting where you can adjust the number of jobs that can run
> concurrently (e.g. transcoding and commercial flagging).  That's the
> easiest way to get performance out of a dual core system.  Only applies
> to backend systems, though, of course.

If you're going to be using that box for anything OTHER than Myth it
would also be a good idea to get a dual core system. My Myth box also
doubles (triples?) as a file/print server and web development box for
work (apache, rails, and a few extra mysql databases) and having a
dual-core definitely helps when I'm doing some intensive mysql
operations while the myth portion is busy recording a program.

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