>> whenever I watch live tv, the hard drive goes >> nuts, and continues doing so until live tv is stopped. it plays/pauses >> etc and works just fine, but the noise that the drive makes is quite >> annoying. >> Yes i know a ringbuffer is used, but I have configured myth to put >> that on a different hard drive (one that isnt nearly as loud!) so I >> dont understand why it is still hammering on that particular drive.
>Is your machine swapping to disk? Look at top data. I like the curses >util htop -- look on freshmeat. If so, buy more ram, a quieter disk, >or a soundproof case ;) > >Start gathering more data for your system. I recommend enabling sar >data collection at 30 minute intervals (even hourly may be good >enough). sysstat includes a cool tk sar data visualizer called isag - >look for it and check it out. > >Gather data with iostat. Example: "iostat -d 1 20" show per-device >read/write stats every 1 second for 20 seconds. the system has 512 meg of ram, and never seems to go over about 50% usage so i sure hope its not swapping :) thanks for the tips on utils to run, i will try all of this tonight. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users