[mythtv-users] Scaling up?

David Frascone dave at frascone.com
Wed Oct 3 19:45:41 UTC 2007


Oh -- and I should say, I'm definately doing another PVR-500 -- not sure
about another HDHomerun.  So -- Can one box hold 1 HDHomerun, and two
PVR-500s?

-Dave

On 10/3/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
>
> I have an adaptec hardware raid system, but I have it set to seperate
> drives and raid-0
>
> so -- imagine 5 70Gb drives, all on the same scsi bus :)
>
> -Dave
>
> On 10/3/07, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/3/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Right now I have a dedicated backend that has a HDHomerun and a
> > PVR-500
> > > attached to it.
> > >
> > > It's got 2 2.4Ghz Xeon's, and 1Gb of memory.
> > >
> > > So -- my question: I'm thinking of adding a second PVR-500 to
> > it.  And,
> > > possibly, a second HD Homerun.
> > >
> > > Do you think the box can handle it?
> > >
> > > I have another server (where the actual database lives.  If I need to,
> > I
> > > *could* offload one or both of the HDHomerun's over to it.  But -- it
> > does
> > > have other jobs, so -- if possible, I'd like things to stay on one
> > box.
> > >
> > > So -- I guess my question is:  Can one box hold 4 SD and 4 HD
> > tuners?  And,
> > > if no one knows, how can I tell once it gets overloaded?
> > >
> >
> > What sort of drive system do you have in the box?  The I/O is going to
> > be your biggest constraint.
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> --
> David Frascone
>
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David Frascone

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