Well I've been looking at iotop when things are lagging and there
isn't really anything surprising going on. I do have a couple of
things causing a fairly constant low level of disk activity (around 1%
iowait) which are java (for Wuala cloud storage) and jbd2 (the ext4
filing system house keeping daemon). I put a commit=15 onto my fstab
entry and that reduced jbd2 quite a bit.
Looks like a faster disk might be the only way out!
Thanks again for all the suggestions.
ATB, Peter
On 14 March 2013 08:30, Michael Pavling <pavling@???> wrote:
> On 13 March 2013 21:57, Paul Stimpson <paul@???> wrote:
>>
>> >Maybe a good cheap quiet boot device for an Openelec media player
>> >though?
>> >(assuming the media files are on a server somewhere else in the
>> >house...)
>> >
>>
>> An OpenElec machine will keep its database and all the downloaded movie
>> and album art on the boot volume so you do want something quite spritely if
>> you don't want the GUI to be chunky. I got a 64GB SanDisk SATA SSD from
>> Novatech for mine for about £40.
>>
>
> The DB can be anywhere (I share a MySQL DB between three XBMC boxes at
> home), and with a little fiddling, so can the artwork. And if, as he says,
> it's only "slightly worse", it won't be clunky...
> But yeah, given the price of a 32GB CF card against a 'proper' SSD hard
> drive, there doesn't seem to be much sense in setting out to build with
> that. But if the bits were all spare in a box, I'd not hesitate to use them.
>
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