I have noticed a problem with my 7025+.

If I transfer movies from the internal hard drive to my PC (or from my PC to the Dreambox) Dreambox's file operations, when used with remote control via OSD-menus, are very slow. Same happens with ftp and samba, transfer rates are about 4MB/sec upload to Dreambox, 8MB/sec download from Dreambox.

Recorded movies menu operates slowly and when I select a recording and try to playback, it takes long time with wait symbol displayed onscreen. Also, if the recording has a marker for previous playback and I select "yes" to continue playback from that place, it does not work. After a long time I just get an error message saying: No data on transponder (Timeout reading PAT). Things get even worse and slower if Dreambox is also recording at the same time.

What is wrong? Is it a problem with my Dreambox or are Dreambox's hard drive routines really so bad that even a 4MB/sec network transfer can make hard drive operate so slowly? Hard drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10, 320GB,7200 rpm. UDMA2 mode seems to be enabled when checked with hdparm. But the system sure works like it's in PIO-mode...

I have made more tests and during the transfer vsftpd takes over 70% of cpu time. Same problem also with samba, then smbd takes same cpu time. I also changed those tasks priorities to lower, from 0 to 15 and that seems to help. But what is the cause of this problem? Is 7025's CPU really that weak or is there some bug in HDD/filetransfer code?
(Looks like I need to post this to Enigma software forum)

Zitat

Originally posted by Ghost
And yes.. this is normal.

If this is normal, and known "problem", then why are the task priorities set so that a file transfer can slow down everything else?