[vdr] Re: CPU too fast??

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

On 04 Oct 2001 16:52:00 +0200, Usenet-372112@zocki.toppoint.de (Rainer
Zocholl) wrote:

> Emm, "concurrent" recording may relax the problem,
> because the CPU is too busy to be too fast :-)

I don't record constantly on all cards otherwise the 500 GB disks would
be full very fast. :)

> 
> (Assume -for example- that the CPU is too fast and
> see a "ready" bit, that's acuttally still the old
> one, because the AV71xx controls it by software and is
> too slow to clear it in time. (It's just an example what can happen
> with too fast CPUs and hardware. I don't know if this is
> true for the DVB-S) 

I know this tricky problems because I do system programming on
multiprocessor unix systems with *very* fast cpus since 10+ years. ;-)

> Which kernel?

Suse 7.1 with 2.4.4 kernel. 

Emil