[vdr] Re: "stand-by-recording"

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>]

Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M wrote:
...
> Why not designating a seperate fs for the "Pause" buffer.
> Ppl with lots of RAM will chose it to be a ramdisk, others may want to
> stress the HDD.

I beilieve neither HD nor RAM is the best solution.
How about VM?  ;-)

As long as the size of the buffer in VDR is configurable and as long
as you create a corresponding amount of swap space on your machine,
the system should make the best out of it.

As an example, people with 1.5GB of RAM may want to configure a 1GB
buffer and very little swap space, so the HD is not used and the
buffer lives in RAM most of the time.
Somebody with a fast system disk and only 128MB of RAM may still
want to configure a 1GB buffer, but enough swap space, so the buffer
will live on disk most of the time.
Somebody with a slow system disk and only 128MB of RAM may
want to configure a 64MB buffer, so the buffer lives in RAM most
of the time.

Carsten.



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