Lots of Disk Activity?

[sflamm]

My RecordedTV directory is remote on my NAS - but there appears to be a substantial amount of local disk activity while LiveTV is playing...

Is there a way to make this go away? Settting for network performance?

[alfi33]

Are you running Comskip on your LiveTV recordings?

[sflamm]

No, I have ShowAnalyzer running on the NAS. The server does nothing but skip commercials based on the EDL.

[GKusnick]

There are a number of things it could be, depending on what you consider to be a "substantial amount" of disk I/O.

If you have debug logging enabled, then it's continuously writing entries to the debug log. If you're running a beta version, debug logging is enabled by default.

If you have local import directories, it could be periodically scanning them for updates (the default behavior, unless you've disabled it in Detailed Settings).

If you're changing filtering and sorting options, those property settings get periodically checkpointed to disk. Similarly, the Watched high-water marks for programs you're watching get periodically checkpointed to the Wiz.bin database.

If it bothers you, you could use procmon to figure out which files are being written by which processes.

[Thomas Wischgol]

It could also be the result of the java heap size being to low. I had that problem at after I increased it to 512MB the excess disk IO stopped.

Thomas

[sflamm]

Heap size sounds like a great suggestion - I have plenty of memory on the machine.

Set:

HKLM\Software\Frey --> "JVMMaxHeapSizeMB ?

[razrsharpe]

It could also be Microsoft Search. I recently installed it on my server and after installation I have lots of disk I/O. I have since disabled it (you can probably set it to not scan some folders but I was too lazy to figure that out...)

[Thomas Wischgol]

Originally Posted by sflamm

Heap size sounds like a great suggestion - I have plenty of memory on the machine.

Set:

HKLM\Software\Frey --> "JVMMaxHeapSizeMB ?

Yes, just set it to 512 or even higher if you have plenty of memory.

Thomas

[sflamm]

Great. I have 4GB on WinXP SP3.... Any advice on how to go? 1GB? 2GB?

[GKusnick]

Look at the JVM Heap Size figures on the System Information screen in Sage. If your Total isn't running up against your Max, then increasing the Max won't have any effect.