Rusty, The test was run from 11 PM to 7 AM, so no one in my house was doing anything but sawing logs, as far as I know. Yes, teenagers tend to stay up late, but I would have heard the tv. I don't think any of the other machines are really doing anything at that time as well.
I don't think anyone is using my wifi....I have a 64 character key for AES and mac address filter for security. Yes, I know one can eaily spoof the mac address thing, but it keeps some out. I also have not seen anything strange in the logs. Rsync is a good idea, but I agree - fragile, lots to set up, but maybe worth a thought if nfs tends to be the problem. Maybe a script to check if a local folder has changed, and then rsync it........ Mark On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Carruth, Rusty < rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com> wrote: > Well, NFS server is less likely (I think!) to cause momentary freezes than > the client, but samba MIGHT be an idea. Hopefully someone else here has > more experience with the server side of things, or maybe google would help. > **** > > ** ** > > On the upload video thing – if you wanted to go to a lot of work, you > could put directories on each computer that periodically get rsync’d (or > whatever) to the server, so that the family members only need to copy the > movie to the directory on their machine and it will automatically get > copied across. But that may be more work and fragility than you want J > (and might make you more expendable!). but that could get rid of nfs or > samba or any such thing. Probably not worth doing if NFS isn’t’ the issue > J, so I’d say turn on half the processes and see what happens, as I > mentioned before..**** > > ** ** > > Thinking about the system for a bit – first the schedule of when things > freeze. Does it line up with anything being done on the client machines? > On the TV? What ‘absolute time’ (wall clock time) were those 38 incidents > at? (If clients do something every 30 minutes, and they are out of sync > with each other, that might explain the variability of the hiccup timing)* > *** > > ** ** > > Going a bit further afield: Have you verified that nobody is using your > wifi for any nefarious purposes? **** > > ** ** > > Just some random thoughts…**** > > ** ** > > Rusty**** > > ** ** > > *From:* plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto: > plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] *On Behalf Of *Mark > Phillips > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 27, 2012 8:47 AM > > *To:* Main PLUG discussion list > *Subject:* Re: Strange Server Behavior**** > > ** ** > > I only installed nfs because I started to use this server as a media > server, and I wanted my family to be able to add movies to the movie folder > on the server. Mediatomb then scans the folder and makes the movies > available on our nifty wifi enabled TV. > > Would samba be a better choice? The other computers on the network are > mac, windows, ubuntu. However, the windoes user has a low probability of > adding any movies by herself....;) (no gender bashing here.....I live with > four wonderful women, and one of them is a complete techo-phobe, and she is > proud of it.....but that helps keep me around, so all is good with the > world). > > Mark **** > > ** ** > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
--------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss