On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Greg Estabrooks wrote:
>  I thought I'd toss in my anecdotal experience with this problem out
> there in
> case it's of any use to anyone.
>
>  Recently I udpated the kernel+ivtv drivers on my master backend from
> 2.6.12.5 (ivtv 0.20rc3j or some such) to 2.6.19.1 and the lastet svn of
> 0.9  as of my upgrade 3 weeks ago.
>
>  Immediately I was getting a ton of the "All encoder MPEG stream buffers
> are full" blah blah "Cause: the application is not reading fast enough"
> messages and along with some dropped frames. For the most part it didn't
> annoy me enough to do anything about it until a week  ago when I updated
> ivtv incase it would fix the problem(it didn't), and finally 3 days ago
> I went to 2.6.19.2 and set my HZ value to 1000 instead of the default
> 250.  Since then, with the exact same version of the driver, and not
> having touched anything else I haven't had that full buffers problem
> even once and I've had at least 40 recordings since then.

Unfortunately, that appears to not be a universal fix.  The current
public KnoppMyth R5E50 already has the kernel configured for 1000, and
yet the problem remains:

---
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib/modules/2.6.18-chw-13/build# grep HZ .config
# CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set
# CONFIG_HZ_250_NODEFAULT is not set
CONFIG_HZ_1000=y
CONFIG_HZ=1000
---

-brendan

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