Well, NFS server is less likely (I think!) to cause momentary freezes than the client, but samba MIGHT be an idea. Hopefully someone else here has more experience with the server side of things, or maybe google would help.
On the upload video thing – if you wanted to go to a lot of work, you could put directories on each computer that periodically get rsync’d (or whatever) to the server, so that the family members only need to copy the movie to the directory on their machine and it will automatically get copied across. But that may be more work and fragility than you want J (and might make you more expendable!). but that could get rid of nfs or samba or any such thing. Probably not worth doing if NFS isn’t’ the issue J, so I’d say turn on half the processes and see what happens, as I mentioned before..
Thinking about the system for a bit – first the schedule of when things freeze. Does it line up with anything being done on the client machines? On the TV? What ‘absolute time’ (wall clock time) were those 38 incidents at? (If clients do something every 30 minutes, and they are out of sync with each other, that might explain the variability of the hiccup timing)
Going a bit further afield: Have you verified that nobody is using your wifi for any nefarious purposes?
Just some random thoughts…
Rusty
From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 8:47 AM
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Subject: Re: Strange Server Behavior
I only installed nfs because I started to use this server as a media server, and I wanted my family to be able to add movies to the movie folder on the server. Mediatomb then scans the folder and makes the movies available on our nifty wifi enabled TV.
Would samba be a better choice? The other computers on the network are mac, windows, ubuntu. However, the windoes user has a low probability of adding any movies by herself....;) (no gender bashing here.....I live with four wonderful women, and one of them is a complete techo-phobe, and she is proud of it.....but that helps keep me around, so all is good with the world).
Mark
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