[mythtv-users] pdflush is killing me

[Brian Wood]

On Feb 5, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Mark Lehrer wrote:

>
> Hello there, I'm having a problem with frequent pauses and I'm  
> wondering
> if anyone here is familiar with pdflush and how to make it a little
> less painful.
>
> I use NFS for my storage, XFS file system.  The problem only seems to
> happen when I am both recording and playing back a hi def stream at
> the same time.  Every minute or so on the server, pdflush will wake up
> and freeze all I/O for a couple of seconds.  The server is running
> Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS, with this kernel: 2.6.15-26-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT
>
> Any idea how to fix the problem?
>

Not sure it will help but have a look at:

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s05.html