Hi Mark,

Do both drives need to be SATA interface? I have some 10GB drives around here from some of the players I purchased that are IDE. If they have to be SATA, I will go buy one from a laptop repair shop. I would think they would be glad to get rid of one.



Both of these dumps are with the generic ReserveCache=xx. I have not changed it to ReserveCache=20. It didn't seem to make a difference with the problem.


For the meantime, here is a dump (and I use that term lightly) of the 500 GB SATA drive (clean install), that you asked for.


This one is missing the Tags & Database Files:
Code:
empeg:/empeg/bin# cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  15314944  5599232  9715712  1310720   487424  3829760
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:     14956 kB
MemFree:       9488 kB
MemShared:     1280 kB
Buffers:        476 kB
Cached:        3740 kB
SwapTotal:        0 kB
SwapFree:         0 kB
empeg:/empeg/bin#

-----------------------------------------------------

This one has the Tags and Database Files fixed:
Code:
empeg:/empeg/bin# cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  15314944  5607424  9707520  1306624   487424  3837952
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:     14956 kB
MemFree:       9480 kB
MemShared:     1276 kB
Buffers:        476 kB
Cached:        3748 kB
SwapTotal:        0 kB
SwapFree:         0 kB
empeg:/empeg/bin#


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Here is also a dump of the 250 GB IDE that works too (good tags).
Code:
empeg:/empeg/bin# cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  15314944  6090752  9224192  1306624   786432  3977216
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:     14956 kB
MemFree:       9008 kB
MemShared:     1276 kB
Buffers:        768 kB
Cached:        3884 kB
SwapTotal:        0 kB
SwapFree:         0 kB
empeg:/empeg/bin#

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I changed the config.ini to add ReserveCache=20. *********


This is what it the 250 GB IDE Drive looks like:
Code:
empeg:/empeg/bin# cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  15314944  6090752  9224192  1306624   786432  3977216
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:     14956 kB
MemFree:       9008 kB
MemShared:     1276 kB
Buffers:        768 kB
Cached:        3884 kB
SwapTotal:        0 kB
SwapFree:         0 kB
empeg:/empeg/bin#

********************************************************

Here is what the 500 GB Drive looks like with ReserveCache=20

Code:
empeg:/empeg/bin# cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  15314944  5611520  9703424  1310720   487424  3842048
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:     14956 kB
MemFree:       9476 kB
MemShared:     1280 kB
Buffers:        476 kB
Cached:        3752 kB
SwapTotal:        0 kB
SwapFree:         0 kB
empeg:/empeg/bin#

***********************************************************

Looks like it doesn't make a difference here either.

Do you want more?


Ross


Edited by wfaulk (21/03/2011 14:38)
Edit Reason: code tags
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