[mythtv-users] Slow network causes myth to hang?

[John Drescher]

> I suspect it's not that the database uses all that bandwidth, it's that
> with NFS saturating the network mysql can't get a packet in edgewise.
>
It is NFS saturating the network.

>
> Another possibility is high processor usage.  Some cheap ethernet cards
> demand a fair bit of it.  I have a 2.0 GHz Celeron system with a Realtek
> 8139 card in it, on a full-duplex 100baseT network, and using most of
> the available bandwidth will cause 20% of the CPU to be consumed in
> "system" processes. If I'm using a web browser or SMB file browser to do
> the copy, the software and ethernet driver together can easily consume
> over half the CPU.
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Not on either of my systems. Both have server class motherboards with
server NICs and the cpu usage is low on both systems.

John