[linux-dvb] Re: DVB + SATA

[Jon Burgess <mplayer@jburgess.uklinux.net>]

Tim Hoad wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am having problems getting my VisionPlus DVB-t card to play nice with my SATA
> HDD  - video breaks up when disk is accessed. I am using a motherboard with
> on-board SiI3112 SATA controller (ABIT NF7-s).
>  
Are you using Linux-2.6 with VDR and a ext2/3 filesystem for the video 
storage?

It seems that this combination causes very poor disk performance, 
resulting in the kernel spending a lot of time accessing the disk.

Does "vmstat 1" report a high number in the "cpu wa" column?

   Jon