nick.rout at gmail
Feb 26, 2010, 4:57 PM
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Tortise <tortise [at] paradise> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Rout" <nick.rout [at] gmail>
> To: <stephen [at] jsw>; "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz [at] lists>
> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 1:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Minimum CPU for FreeviewHD
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>>I have also come to the conclusion that a separate beackend is the way to go.
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> Yes I'm attracted to this conclusion also - which then asks the question what is currently the minimum CPU / RAM requirement for a
> backend (with no frontend) ? While I haven't tried yet I expect a single core 2000 would be underutilised, presuming no
> commflagging is sought. A 1000 or less also may still be fine? Anyone?
from my /proc/cpuinfo:
model name : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor LE-1250
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1000.000
I am a cheapskate and it was the cheapest motherboard/cpu/ram combo I
could get when my previous backend sucked the big kumara and needed
replacing right damn now.
It has a gig of ram. It seems to be fine for the purpose. Recording
from 2 dvb-s cards with 4 virtual per real tuner.
I don't do commflagging or transcoding, but it would do. I have the OS
on a different disk to the recordings.
cpu on the backend is useful for commflagging, trancoding and running
the scheduler. Disk throughput is far more important, as is network
IO.
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