[vdr] Re: Buffer overflows

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:44:23 +0300 (EEST), Jan Ekholm
<chakie@infa.abo.fi> wrote:

> Weird. It did happen about a minute after a recording started, but we've
> had no problems with disk performance so far. We've successfully recorded
> three shows at the same time while watching one of the shows. The disk is
> a pretty new disk with DMA and decent performance, so I don't know what
> could cause it to get too busy. The logs show no other activity and cron
> doesn't run at the same time either. If the disk is temporarily busy one
> would think that it would catch up after a few seconds, especially as the
> data is stored in a ring buffer with a max size.

Have you removed some recordings before and what filesystem are you
using? 
Deletion of large files is slow on some filesystems. 
Have you disabled the power management of the disk?

Emil


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