ptosch
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« on: September 11, 2009, 09:17:24 AM » |
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Hi !
I am experiencing strange problems with my 32GB SDCard.
When recording from my dreambox500 to the sheevaplug using cifs to a usb-attached harddrive there are no problems.
But when I try to record to the 32gb card, the recording is very choppy, after half an hour the dreambox even stops the
recording with the message "write error on share".
- I tried using cifs- and nfs-shares, no change, still choppy:
- I put the card into a card reader and attached it via USB to the sheevaplug, still choppy;
- The card has been tested; it was filled completely with a file, then compared with the original: no problems;
- When i copy manually files to the sdcard while attached to the plug there are no problems as well;
Some more info:
- the streaming is never more then 800kb/sec, the card is capable transferring 4MB/sec;
- i used sheevaplug-installer-alpha-6 on the plug
- i even used a kernel with sdcard slowdown, no change
some observation on the plug:
- while recording on the USB-Harddrive one can see regular flickering of the Network-LED,
- when using the sdcard one can see irregular flickering. There are breaks in the transfer up to 8 seconds. Watching the increase of bytes of the recording files looks very similar: after regular growing of the file, there are often stops of ten seconds in the increase;
first guess: The card is too big, the plug has too much DMA overhead, or something
second guess: SD Cards write with a certain block-size, which has to be set ... or something
Unfortunately i find my guesses not really logical, since copying a simple file over network to the file works smoothly.
What do You think about it ? Every guess is welcome.
cheers,
Peter
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« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2009, 10:06:49 AM » |
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Sounds like write 'stuttering' as can happen on solid-state media that has been filled at least once.
If you could make your transfer/write block size (at least) the card's internal block size (remembering that many units may be in parallel inside) then possibly your stuttering would go.
Rgds
Damon
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ptosch
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« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2009, 01:06:39 AM » |
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Some news,
Actually I tried the combination of ReiserFS and CIFS. Now it is much better, though it stutters every 2-4 minutes for a half second.
I still have to change the block size, however I donīt know how to find the internal block size of the sdcard.
Cheers,
Peter
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« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2009, 03:01:34 AM » |
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My *guess* is that if you can write in blocks of 256kB+ then much of the problem will go away.
Rgds
Damon
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« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2009, 11:00:39 PM » |
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which kernel are you using on the plug? The original or 2.6.30.x?
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ptosch
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« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2009, 01:48:16 AM » |
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uname -a:
Linux hostname 2.6.30-rc6 #2 PREEMPT Wed May 20 05:42:04 MDT 2009 armv5tel GNU/Linux
I have to find out how to raise the block size for reiserfs, so results follow later.
By the way: does anyone know how to set reiserfs flash-memory friendly ?
regards,
Peter
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« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2009, 02:11:15 AM » |
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Would a large commit=XXX help? I have mine set to 600 for ext3 to attempt to better batch up writes.
Rgds
Damon
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