[mythtv-users] Memory Utilization

[Obrien, Haskell W.]

Hiccup - video and audio playback do a sort of crappy pause, then resume.
I didn't think about the fact that KDE is running in the background.  I have eliminated some of the extra services such as nfsd and smb.

Mandrake 9.1
P4 1.6ghz
256mb
120gb maxtor drive for storage.
seperate 3gb drive for system.
dss reciever controlled via serial link.
mysql
apache2

Now that I look at it, running just KDE, and doing nothing, 198MB is being used!
sheesh.
I rebooted, minus a couple extra services, and 66MB was in use doing nothing.
Started up mythbackend and kicked off a recording, and I'm at 125MB in use.

I think I just need to put mythfrontend with a lightweight window manager.

Does MYTH need a window manager at all?  On my karkomp project, it was just fine running a single X application without the window manager...

Will

-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Olszewski [mailto:ray at comarre.com]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 12:54 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Memory Utilization


At 12:12 PM 8/11/2003 -0500, Obrien, Haskell W. wrote:
>In the Docs, it suggests that 256MB is sufficient.
>However, on my mythtv box I get some hickups every so often, and it seems 
>like swapping to me.  When I check with top, it's using a good 128mb of swap.
>
>Is this typical?  Trying to run down the source of the hickups, they're 
>annoying.

If this is a dedicated MythTV system, it is quite unusual. I've seen 
nothing like it here, and I can't recall seeing anything like that much 
swap use ever reported on the list. So ...

1. Is it a dedicated Myth system? If not, what else runs regularly?

2. What does top (or, better, free) report right after the system 
boots/inits? Before mythfrontend even starts running, if possible.

3. What are "hickups" and how often is "every so often"? Metaphor is of 
limited value when describing technical problems with systems.

4. What are the basics of the system? Hardware, Linux distro, X driver, and 
X wm.