Hi,

like most of you I use my asus for storing files which are shared across the network and downloading of files (newsservers).


I have lots of audio and video stored on the asus which is used by multiple devices (xbox (xbmc), several pc's and laptops, etc)

I used the xbox/pc to listen to music/watch movies, 'streaming' from the asus.

When it is not downloading anything heavy from a newsserver this works perfectly, I can view dvds with my xbox/pc which are stored on the asus.
But when the asus is downloading (Hellanzb) it tends to skip some frames in the dvd played by xbox/pc. Not much at all (once or twice every minute), but just enough to get irritated about., it seems to me that the asus just can't handle this load, because being a bit to heavy.

So I was thinking about priorities in the asus, are there any?
Can I give samba the uppermost priority so that the dvd doesn't skip and Hellanzb doesn't get a lot of resources.. slowing down the download/verify/unpacking does not matter to me, it can pickup after the dvd is watched...

btw.. I'm starting hella with the following command (nice, should give it a lower priority (i don't know if it's true, n00b here), but do I have to start samba with a higher then?)
Code:
nice -n19 /opt/bin/hellanzb.py -D
When I was running Hellanzb without the nice option the skipping was much worse, so I know it had some effect..



I don't have any of these problems while listening to music, but that doesn't need the bandwith..

looking forward in reading your thoughts about this..


TIA