2006-12-05, 09:07 PM
wtg Wrote:Check available memory after it's been running for a while, and check it as soon as you see the problem again. Maybe you have some renegade process that's eating up memory.
1 GB of ram is certainly more than enough for a dedicated GB-PVR machine, but if your running something with a bad memory leak, it doesn't matter how much ram you have.
Well, this has been an interesting day, looking back at logs. What I've learned so far is I'm in need of a system rebuild. Todays recordings all went just fine, however slow, very slow. I had my wife's soaps set up on two different machines to record. one the normal GBpvr system and another clean system. On a one hour recording, It took 14 minutes to run, comskip, comclean and retime on the new system. It took 47 minutes on the normal server, even though it all went well today it was slow.
Finding available memory is almost by chance. I stumbled on it twice, by accident and seems to be way more than i need. What i did notice was on the normal system background services running comskip jumped up to around 50% CPU usage, for comclean and retime it dropped to 1% or less of CPU.
On the fresh system comskip again took around 50% of CPU to run, however comclean and retime both hovered around 7% of CPU.
The time to run comskip was about the same on both systems, it was comclean and retime that were significantly more.
I'm wondering if them only using 1% or less of CPU would make that kind of difference. I'm guessing it would. Both systems have pretty similar spec's.
Either way first chance i get it's time for the yearly wipe and rebuild. XP and associated hardware takes about 2 hours, GBpvr takes about 10 minutes or less to do.
Let one of those other pvr's try and match that