[mythtv] hdtvrecorder: dynamic ringbuffers?
Simon Kenyon
simon at koala.ie
Wed Dec 22 17:28:26 UTC 2004
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 13:20, Kyle Rose wrote:
> Not clear why you have swap enabled on what is essentially an embedded
> device: 512MB should be more VM than you ever need for this purpose,
> and by disabling swap you eliminate an entire class of latency
> failures that can be mistaken for other problems. Just IMO. Only my
> laptop has swap, and then enabled only when I do swsusp2 hibernate.
i definitely remember linus saying that running without swap was a bad idea
(for linux that is). this of course might no longer be true; but it was at
one stage
--
simon
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