Oh yeah, and I removed "acpi=off" from the kernel parameters in grub.conf

At 10:18 PM 4/15/2009, Rick Steeves wrote:
>At 10:47 PM 3/31/2009, [email protected] wrote:
>>Sicne I collected this data, I've also
>>-upgraded mythtv to "current" on atrpms mythtv-0.21-203.el5
>>-swapped out the data drive
>>-formatted the data drive to XFS (which is clearly faster when I fast
>>forward/rewind)
>>-Copied all the data onto the new XFS (which should remove any fragmentation)
>>-reenabled acpi at the kernel (removed acpi=off). I'd removed it
>>because it seems like the system hard hands with it on, and indeed it
>>hung within the first few hours of having it back on after having not
>>hung for a couple of weeks with it off. Could be coincidence. We'll
>>wait for the second hang ...
>>
>>and yet we still have stuttering.
>
>
>I think I finally have this licked.   I think there were multiple factors:
>XFS clearly made things a lot better. Skip and fast forward now work 
>much better.
>The upgrade of myth also improved things.
>
>But the real kicker appears to be running zoneminder. I'm not sure 
>yet whether it's the SQL logging that takes place on the primary 
>drive, or the capture card.  With the capture card drivers loaded, 
>in addition to stuttering the system is VERY unstable. I'm not sure 
>if it's directly a driver problem, or an IRQ conflict or some other 
>issue. but with ZM off and the driver unloaded (rmmod) the system 
>has been stable for a week, and performing wildly better with 
>mvpmc.  something in there is just bad; previously once it started 
>stuttering nothing would fix it except a reboot of the system. Once 
>I'm satisfied everything really is stable (a few weeks of 
>stability), I'll go back and try to troubleshoot the issues with ZM.
>
>I still occasionally have stuttering on the mvpmc which I attribute 
>to the memory leak(s?). But where previously a reboot of the mvpmc 
>wouldn't resolve stuttering once it started, now it will.
>
>Thanks everyone for their assistance.
>
>Rick




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