On my system I get lagged response from VDR until I start recording on budget card. The system just responds very slow, or kind of jumpy, its like if system is busy with something but CPU usage is 0%. The recordings seem to pause for millisecond from time to time. The only work around I found is to start and stop recording on budget card, then it starts to respond smooth and nice. Any suggestions how to solve it, things to try?
So far I've tried pulling all cards out, left only single FF card in the system. Tried moving FF card to different slots, starting/stopping recording on FF card does not make the problem to go away. I tried different kernels, 2.6.8 through 2.6.14-rc3 and firmwares 261f to 2621. Tried vanilla VDR sources and heavy patched VDR, versions 1.3.15 to 1.3.33.
If VDR restarts the problem comes back right away, I have to record something again using budget card for the problem to go away. Newest drivers do not produce any error messages of any kind, all loads fine and tried running it for over 48 hours without restart. When using single FF card in the system, I can't find a way to get rid of the problem. I just ran out of ideas on what to try next. Thanks in advance.
--Vlad
My system specs: Nexus-S 2.3 SkyStar 2 (2.6c) Technotrend budget, (like Nova-S S1102) Athlon-XP 2200+ cpu Asus A7V880 via KT880 motherboard 1Gig of RAM(x2 512Mb sticks) running in dual channel config.