> On Tuesday 12 December 2006 00:35, Stanley Merkx wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I've released new ivtv packages that fix the high CPU load on the >> > PVR350. There is no need to upgrade if you do not have a PVR350 as >> > nothing else was changed. >> > >> > As usual the sources are available from www.ivtvdriver.org. >> > >> > Enjoy, >> > >> > Hans >> >> Hi Hans, >> >> This has fixed it for me... Using 2 PVR-350's (hoping the -fb driver >> will soon be able to support both cards). CPU Usage for mythfrontend >> has dropped from 40% average even when playback was paused to almost >> unmeasurable (both cores are now on average 98% idle when nothing >> else is going on). >> >> Great work, thanks! > > You're welcome! BTW, are both PVR350s in the same computer? Someone else > had problems with two PVR350s in one PCs. And FYI: in the ivtv trunk it > should already be possible to have two ivtv-fb modules. > > Hans >
Well, after reading the comments from Ian about dual ivtv-fb's, I think I'll wait a while before trying this ;-). Both PVR-350's are indeed in the same system, no problem. I saw the other thread, but I did not see anything wrong in the supplied output and could not think of anything useful to add to the thread (other than "works for me"). On the other hand: I also see lots of comments telling people not to use software RAID with ivtv-based cards, but that is also working great for me: RAID1 for boot/root/database on the mainboard SATA-II controllers, RAID5 on a PCI-IDE controller for data (recordings). Only heavy activity from smbd, rsyncd or clamscan on the RAID5 set results in choppy playback and missed chunks in recordings... Stanley. _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
