TVServer service priority (1 Viewer)

[lsandini]

Hello Mediaportalists,

In addition to my single-seat HTPC, I am running a little file server in the house, on which I also put TVServer with a DVB-C (FireDTV) tuner. There is no monitor, mouse or keyboard or soundcard on that machine, and I monitor it using remote desktop.

This little server streams SD FTA channels over WLAN to my laptop or to the kid's room, and I use it for TV recordings when I am away, since it uses a laptop CPU and its power consuption is very low (compared to the HTPC).

For some reason I had decided to put a higher priority to the TVServer service over other services/tasks, and it has been working very well for weeks, if not months.

My remote desktop was quite sluggish though, as well from inside the house on Gigabit ethernet as from work, while it was really smooth before. When I noticed this priority thing, I put it back to normal, and the whole remote desktop experience is back to smoothness ... and MP TVServer works as well as before.

Who else is playing with the service priority ? I grant you my machine's performance is not top notch, but increasing the priority to above normal hogged it furthermore and considerably. Any issues when running it in lower than normal priority ?

Just curious...

Lorenzo

 

[Domarkas]

Hi Isandini,
we have to consider that priority is a relative thing. If there is nothing elso to do for the PC TV Server get full power. But when there are som e things in the background like extern EPG via Internet or other works it can be better to have TV Server higher priority to hav e no stuttering for example. Realtime tasks like remote should then have also the same priority as the he tv server.