[mythtv-users] 0.25 lookup metadata as part of jobqueue?

[Steven Adeff]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 3/11/2012 08:03, Scott & Nicole Harris wrote:
>> It would also be nice to set a different max jobs per job type.  i.e. Allow
>> 4 commercial flag jobs but only 1 transcode job at a time.
>
> That's still far from optimal.  Commercial detection can run in realtime
> behind a recording, or at full speed behind a recording.  At full speed,
> it will fairly efficiency balance over two cores, meaning those four
> jobs would saturate a dual socket, quad core server.  In realtime, all
> of those commercial detection runs will sit idle for the first ten
> minutes, waiting for enough data to do icon detection, and then catch up
> as fast as they can to the in-progress recording, again saturating that
> high end server.  Depending on how many simultaneous recordings you
> have, you may not have a choice of which mode the jobs are going to run in.

So if I have a dual core processor, I run my commercial detection jobs
"real time", and I have say, 7 tuners, would it make sense to allow
more than two commercial detection jobs to run at a time so that all
current recordings are being processed or is it better to only allow
one job per core?

thanks!

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