[ATrpms-users] ivtv 0.7.0 Problem with only being able to "Watch TV" once in MythTV

[Preet Khalsa]

On Fri, 2006-18-08 at 07:52 -0400, Douglas E. Warner wrote:
> On Thursday 17 August 2006 15:53, Douglas E. Warner wrote:
> > Looks like most of these are referring to DMA problems caused by the
> > dynamic CPU speed scaling that cpuspeed does.  Here are the relevant
> > threads for others to read:
> >
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/31405
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/31521
> > http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/ticket/49
> >
> > I'll try this out tonight when I get home and see if it helps at all.
> 
> It looks like the cpuspeed thing wasn't my problem.  I still have the lockup 
> when trying to watch Live TV more than once.
> 
> I'll try checking on ivtv-users and seeing if anyone has any ideas there.

If you have a multicore processor running an SMP kernel, turn off
irqbalance.  It does not stop it, but reduces it.  Better yet, go UP.
My WAF is waaaaay down over this.

Preet