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Re: Access to time shift folder denied.
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:13 pm
by rudig
I don't have all the answers. But my setup is fully based on a sata disk.
Often we record two or three programs at a time. We never had any performance issues.
So I guess you should be fine without the ramdisk
Re: Access to time shift folder denied.
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:16 pm
by BartZorn
Thanks. I will try again and let you know.
Bart
Re: Access to time shift folder denied.
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 5:03 pm
by BartZorn
I moved the time shift folder back to the SATA disk and that works.
I think you can answer one question: how much space do you allocate for time shifting?
Thanks,
Bart
Re: Access to time shift folder denied.
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 9:54 pm
by rudig
4 files of 750mb
Re: Access to time shift folder denied.
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 5:29 pm
by BartZorn
OK, thanks. It doesn't seem to be overkill, though.
Bart
Re: Access to time shift folder denied.
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 11:05 am
by BartZorn
I have done some testing.
My first conclusion is that it does make a difference when the time shift buffer is on a RAM disk. With a conventional disk, I have frequent freezes of Kodi, but with a RAM disk I have only seen it once.
I also found out that the number and size of files to be used for time shifting applies to each stream. I have configured 3 files of 1300 MB on a 4 GB RAM disk. When one stream is running for a while, and I start a second one, the second aborts after a short while. Probably because no time shift buffer space can be allocated.
So I need more RAM disk space, but that is beyond my budget. I have a miniPCIe slot on my mobo and I will try a reasonable priced SSD for it.
Bart