[mythtv-users] High disk activity

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/10/2007 10:55 AM, Phil Bridges wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2007 10:44 AM, Wolfgang Grunewald <wmgrunewald at web.de> wrote:
>>> Besides the fact that LiveTV is reading and writing,
>>>       
>> Sure, the "cat to disk while playing with mplayer" method also
>> is reading and writing.
> This isn't reading as well, is it?

Because of the (kernel's) in-memory cache, it shouldn't be (especially
if you're not hitting swap).  See the output of "free" and search the
'net for how to understand it to better understand this cache.

Mike