RE: Strange Server Behavior

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
To: Main PLUG discussion list
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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