>On 9/23/05, Ryan Steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> > > >> > They do not appear to be. >> > >> > ivtv0 = 22 >> > ivtv1 = 17 >> > eth0 = 20 >> > >> > However ivtv1 is sharing with some part fo the chipset: >> > >> > dragonfly ~ # cat /proc/interrupts >> > CPU0 >> > 0: 14871236 IO-APIC-edge timer >> > 1: 23821 IO-APIC-edge i8042 >> > 9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi >> > 12: 308115 IO-APIC-edge i8042 >> > 14: 187334 IO-APIC-edge ide0 >> > 15: 49 IO-APIC-edge ide1 >> > 16: 485287 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5, >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0000:00:02.0 >> > 17: 57811 IO-APIC-level ivtv1, Intel ICH5 >> > 18: 109 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb4 >> > 19: 174 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb3 >> > 20: 8034881 IO-APIC-level eth0 >> > 22: 38977 IO-APIC-level ivtv0 >> > 23: 4 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb1 >> > NMI: 0 >> > LOC: 14872124 >> > ERR: 0 >> > MIS: 0 >> > dragonfly ~ # >> > >> >> >> I was having a very similiar problem, which is why I asked. For me, it >> wasn't just failing though it was resulting in lock ups. The solution wa>s >> to turn off APIC in the BIOS and it's been hunky dory since. >> > >As a test I jsut switched video storage to my local drive and ran a 30 >minute test run recording two programs. Both programs came out 29:55 >second, basically perfect. > >One difference I noted was while running this test top said that I was >98% idle. Sounds great. While running an identical 30 minute test >storing on my NFS drive top said I was 98% 'waiting'. > >I think my problem resides somewhere in the NFS system. I also note >looking at the output of ifconfig that both the backend side and the >NFS server are logging thousand up thousand 'collisions'. I need to >fix that next. > >Thanks, >Mark >_______________________________________________ >mythtv-users mailing list >mythtv-users@mythtv.org >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > >
NFS works very well for reading, not so well for writing. NFS absolutely insists (for a whole bunch of valid reasons) on commiting the data to disk before returning, resulting in very poor write performance as there is no buffering. Your best bet is writing to a local hard disk. Cheers, Roman Sent using cyberus.ca WebMail - http://www.cyberus.ca/ _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users