Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:18:12 -0400 | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.29 | | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:14:39AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Note that for mythtv, this may not be the best behaviour. > > A common use scenario is "watching live TV", a few minutes behind > real-time so that the commercial-skipping can work its magic.
Well I really never watch live TV. I watch shows when I want to, not when they happen to be on the air. So I certainly couldn't care less if they were no longer cached.
> In that scenario, those pages are going to be needed again > within a short while, and it might be useful to keep them around.
Within 1 minute might be a lot of data for an MPEG2 stream.
> But then Myth itself could probably decide whether to discard them > or not, not based upon that kind of knowledge.
-- Len Sorensen
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