VDR User wrote:
On 5/20/07, Artur Skawina art_k@o2.pl wrote:
VDR User wrote:
I've recorded/watched a lot of tv in the last couple days and so far I haven't noticed any problems with this patch. I am currently using v3 (the patch I attached to my previous post) with vdr-1.5.2.
Do you know how large the buffers usually grow? If you haven't reduced vdrs log level (-l) this info should be somewhere in /var/log/ and you can take a look at the buffer usage w/ eg:
I use level 3 logging for vdr. I emailed you a copy of my logs so you should see that by the time you read this.
Thanks. It seems that 648k was the largest size ever used for a buffer, which is less than 1/3 of the full size (2M for Result,Transfer and TS). The Recorder buffer was typically at 5% of its max size, ie 300k instead of 5M. No overflows w/ v3 of the patch (two with the previous version, which was starting out with just 128k).
I get a lot worse results here (buffers grow to a few M), but that's probably because the vdr box is not a dedicated one, but also handles quite a few other services; IO stalls are not uncommon and several simultaneous recordings are sometimes done while streaming via streamdev to another vdr. Still, no overflows.
artur