Troubleshooting:Performance
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What?
MythTV, as with any software, works better if the hardware is working well.
Currently this is just a simple list of things to check, hopefully "how" they are checked will be added later. But currently this might be helpful, even in its basic form.
Essentially were looking at minimising latency and maximising throughput by enabling hardware acceleration where possible.
| CPU: | AMD Athlon64-3700 |
| MOBO: | Asus K8VSE (VIA K8T800) |
| RAM: | 1GB DDR400 (single channel) |
| GPU: | NVidia 6800GX 128MB AGP (NVidia Driver Linux-x86-100.14.19) |
| HD: | Western Digital WD200JB (200GB) |
| DISTRO: | Slackware 11.0 |
| KERNEL: | 2.6.22.9 |
Where?
Where do we start looking to achieve performance zen. We could look at the symptoms, but this all takes time. So listed are simply the areas which might impact on juddery video playback.
- Bios
- Default Settings. Start off my not overclocking, don't run in turbo mode.
