[vdr] Re: VDR-Network-Traffic-Managment

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Stefan.Hagendorn@lindy.cc schrieb:
> 
> Axel,
> 
> how about upgrading to gigabit ethernet ???? imho it's not too expensive
> nowdays ....

Well I doubt the problem is network speed here. I mean we are talking
about 100MBit/sec network speed insteadt of 4Mbit speed from the
satellite. So you should be able to "stream" at least 10 channels at
once.

I think it's a harddrive speed problem, maybe because of some IRQ or DMA
problems.

Servus
  Casandro

> stefan
> 
> 
>                     Axel Gruber
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>                     17.06.2002
>                     13:43
>                     Please respond
>                     to vdr
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Here i use a small VDR-network with one "main-machine" (4 DVB-Devices) and
> 8 Harddrives.
> 2 Clients with only 1 DVB-Device and mounted the Harddrives from the
> Main-Machine.
> 
> Everything works fine.
> 
> Now i want to expand the harddrivespace and connect a aditional Server to
> this Network.
> 
> But now i get problems.
> 
> VDR allways use the /video device wich has the highes space on it. - so if
> i connect
> the Server to the network (for example as /video9) all Vdrīs only record to
> this device.
> 
> If i only record 1 or 2 Streams at the same time there is  no problem - but
> if i
> (and my Brother) watch over the Clients (over the LAN) and the main-Machine
> want to
> record over the Network i get Problems because the netowrk ist too slow.
> 
> Is there any way to tell VDR that he only shuld use a specifyed number of
> recordings over
> the network ?
> 
> I know this is a realy specific problem - but i donīt have a solution for
> it !
> 
> CU
> 
> Axel