[mythtv-users] Slow network causes myth to hang?
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Sun Feb 11 03:24:02 UTC 2007
On Feb 10, 2007, at 8:17 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>> 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.
>> _______________________________________________
>
> Not on either of my systems. Both have server class motherboards with
> server NICs and the cpu usage is low on both systems.
>
I'm sure you know all this, but:
Any chance of changing your network topology so the path from the
Myth machine to NFS storage is not interfering with the "transfers"
you mentioned?
You could even put a second NIC in the NFS box and create a second
network just for the Myth system I suppose, if one of the boxes
involved in the transfers was the NFS server.
There are 2 ways to get more bandwidth, add more in some way or
remove some of what exists from the overloaded path.
Just a thought.
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