[multicat-devel] Issues with recording and playback

[Christophe Massiot]

Le 3 janv. 2012 à 23:08, Eduardo Vieira a écrit :

> I'm having issues while recording and playing simultaneously a
> multicast stream. The stream has about 10 Mbit/s, and it seems that
> multicat is freezing in intervals of 30 seconds. I believe this is
> happening because it's the interval that the kernel writes data from
> cache memory to the disk (some kind of flush).
> Do you have any configuration setup (kernel or file system parameters)
> that is recommended for this application ?

This is weird because I know people who use multicat to record ~30 channels on the same server (a good machine though). It the play-out freezes, it may be interesting to try:
blockdev --setra 4096 /dev/sdXX