[mythtv-users] Fine Grained Mythtv Tuning
Andre
mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk
Fri Dec 10 10:53:19 UTC 2010
On 10 Dec 2010, at 05:02, Greg Oliver wrote:
> Well, I finally have my system running optimally. It allows me to
> record up to 6 programs while watching 1 ***without judder***
>
> I always though that the machine was powerful enough to endure
> anything, and using top, latencytop, iotop, etc - I could not hit the
> nail on the head why until I finally turned on debugs and saw it for
> myself. It was not feeding data fast enough for mythtv. I started
> examinig it closer with much higher refresh rates with the above
> tools, and indeed, there were millisecond spikes causing the player to
> hiccup.
>
> I had previously setup (more for fun than requirement, and
> half-complete) fine grained controls over the system, but had an error
> I had to track down. I created a page on the wiki if anyone is
> interested in similar.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Tuning_Linux_for_MythTV:_Using_cgroups
Thanks for this, I've planned to look at this for ages but never quite got around to it.
Looks very clear and comprehensive.
Andre
>
> -Greg
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