On 9/22/05, Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:52:15PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Thanks very much. > > > > I did have it set to one job, but CPU usage was medium so I've set it > > to low. Additionally I saw an option to start commercial flagging when > > recording starts. I've disabled that also, at least as a test. > > > > Probably 70% of our recording is late night stuff so commercial > > flagging can get done between 3AM and 7AM and probably cause no > > problems at all. > > I think your real problem was commercial flagging when recording > starts (a.k.a. "real-time commercial flagging).
Could be. Now that I know where the setting are I can play with that a bit. > > You might be OK bumping CPU usage back up to medium so that > commflagging can go faster. The nicing should prevent mythcommflagging > from interfering with recordings. But I don't know the details of your > capture cards, maybe you need more CPU for software encoding. 3GHz P4HT but currently a UMP kernel. PVR-150 PVR-250 512MB 250GB storage over NFS in another box so good networking matters. > > My AMD64 always runs in powersave mode at 1GHz and lets me watch one > recording, record two more off of HD-3000 cards (digital broadcast so > no encoding), and mythcommflagging, all at the same time, with no > problems with anything. Sounds cool. > > > On 9/22/05, Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:18:11PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Is it possible to somehow nice mythcomflag? It appears that in > > > > cases where I'm recording two shows and also doing commercial > > > > detection on two shows that just completed that my poor 3GHz P4 > > > > cannot keep up. This is resulting in bad recordings. I think > > > > that if I lowered priorities on mythcomflag I'd do better. > > > > > > In mythtv-setup General options there is a "Job Queue" > > > configuration page. Set the CPU Usage option: > > > > > > - High: no nicing > > > - Medium: nice 19 > > > - Low: nice 19 + sleep() every so often in the main loop > > > > > > Also, you might want to reduce the number of maximum simultaneous > > > jobs to "1", unless you have hyperthreading enabled and are > > > running an SMP kernel. > > --Rob > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDM2ID18A6pRrdKfkRAsu7AKCSy4gJlfbAxl4ouNNQ4R9AMIw4swCfcw4S > /0W456aC2dINUvPn2Iv4aUI= > =yW8V > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users