Chris Knadle wrote: > MythTV requires being able to store large files but also write a lot of > data. My guess is that you're running into a filesystem write contention > problem; adding memory adds cache space which helps a little, but doesn't > fully address the issue concerning write speed. Biggest tweak to write speed > I can suggest for starters is DMA + 32-bit access by tweaking with 'hdparm'.
I had considered this but I have S-ATA drives and `sudo hdparm -c /dev/sda` says: /dev/sda: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1 HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) -- __________________________________________________________________ Garrison Hoffman Codefix Consulting http://codefix.net/ 914.930.6268 718.210.3445 800.691.8674 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
