[mythtvnz] Fwd: Minimum CPU for FreeviewHD

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
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> From: "Nick Rout" <nick.rout at gmail.com>
> To: <stephen at jsw.gen.nz>; "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> 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.
>
> 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.