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> obrienmd@mythtv:~$ ifconfig<br>
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:85:1a:c0:17<br>
> inet addr:192.168.123.111 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0<br>
> inet6 addr: fe80::221:85ff:fe1a:c017/64 Scope:Link<br>
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br>
> RX packets:259430513 errors:0 dropped:671119702 overruns:0 frame:0<br>
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</div>That's *way* too many dropped packets for a healthy network interface.<br>
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A packet will be dropped when it's received by the network card when<br>
its internal buffer is full. The CPU is responsible for periodically<br>
emptying this buffer, which suggests that something is preventing this<br>
from happening frequently enough, such as high disk I/O load or<br>
something like that.</blockquote><div><br>I figured this. However, even when recording 4 HD streams at once, 'iostat -xk 1' output shows disk utilization at well below 50% for each of the RAID1 disks that recordings are written to. Any other thoughts as to what could cause all of these dropped packets?<br>
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