Live TV stops serveral times / TVS out of buffer (2 Viewers)

[josch.hh]

Please wait before you put this in official docs.

If it is true that the SSD is the problem, then i will find out the next days.

I set up a ramdisk for timeshifting.... so if it was really the SSD then it should not appear anymore.

I will come back next day with an answer!!!!

It should be simply a "yes" or "no".



Merry X-Mas, and thx for your help.

 

[Ambass]

It's mainly but not only timeshift buffer.
Also, there are :
- some windows and sql .log accesses than can stuck the system.
- Virtual memory accesses.

My system is "globally" working ( XP ) without troubles with :
- 4Gb of memory.
- No virtual memory.
- 256 Mb cache on C:\
- Dedicated partition ( D:\ , 20Gb ) for timeshift with 256 Mb cache. ( With System Restore de-activated )
- timeshift buffer size : 20 Mb, min = 5 files, max = 200 files.


@tourette, I suggest we ( at least ) advice of potential problem due to SSD. Probably next SSD generation will be ok.

ambass.

 

[josch.hh]

It's mainly but not only timeshift buffer.

- timeshift buffer size : 20 Mb, min = 5 files, max = 200 files.

ambass.

Why such a small filesize? Do you recommend this settings?

 

[tourettes]

It's mainly but not only timeshift buffer.

- timeshift buffer size : 20 Mb, min = 5 files, max = 200 files.

ambass.

Why such a small filesize? Do you recommend this settings?

The smaller the file size is the less you have change to hit some bug in TsWriter / TsReader that is caused by locked files

 

[Ambass]

@tourette, yes.. locked files problem was occuring with 5~10% chance with the SSD.

josch.hh, preallocating 256MB files can take a long time, the freezes due to this feature are removed using small buffers.

 

[josch.hh]

Until one day after switching from the SSD timeshift files to a 1GB ramdisk erverything is fine.
I will check over next days, but i think the ramdisk is the solution for me.

Allocating 200MB files on a ramdisk should not be so time consuming..

But you may be right to test it again with small files on the SSD.

 

[josch.hh]

To end this thread i would say that the problem is solved by the ramdisk i use.

No more problems with hanging live tv.

Thx for the help.

 

[disaster123]

Mhm do you recommend small timeshift files in general? or only for SSD? For me small timeshiftfiles are always causing stuttering. I'm using 1GB RAMDISK Files.

 

[stoked]

The SSD drive problem is likely related to the issues seen in this article: AnandTech: Intel X25-M SSD: Intel Delivers One of the World's Fastest Drives

Basically most of the cheap SSD's available that use the generic MLC controller are junk. Don't touch them.