26 November
2006

dvb kernel 2.6 and vdr stutters

This is a very technical entry.

In recently building a 2.6 linux kernel (2.6.18 specifically) for use with vdr using dvb, I found that vdr delivered poor performance, slow response and generally was unresponsive. This seemed to be fixed, to a large extent, by recompiling the kernel with Preemption Model set to "No Forced Preemption (Server)". This can be found under the 2.6.18 menu configuration under



    Processor type and features  ---> 

      Preemption Model (No Forced Preemption (Server))  ---> 

           (X) No Forced Preemption (Server)

Posted by dudek at 21:45 November 26, 2006 | Leave a comment | permalink link to this entry |

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