<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Josh White <<a href="mailto:jaw1959@gmail.com">jaw1959@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">When recording, Myth inserts stuff into the database like crazy, which<br>
results in a lot of head thrashing (write stream one, write to database,<br>
write stream two, write to database) Throughput on the drives can be<br>
fine, but as soon as you're causing constant seeking, the system starts to<br>
suffer.<br>
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Greg</blockquote></div><br></div>The OP asked if his hardware would handle 4 tuners/4 frontends. Yesterday, I was able to watch 3 different things, record 5 different things, commercial flag 2 of the 5 recordings - simultaneously, on 7 year old hardware. I was recording to 1 LVM comprised of 2 ATA 133 hard drives. It seems to me that if that won't push it too far, then I don't know what will. <br>
<br>I think we need a better definition of "like crazy" and "a lot" before we build systems around it.</blockquote><div><br>oh, and a better definition of "suffer" too. <br></div></div><br>