[mythtv-users] Swap optimization

Asher Schaffer freedenizen at gmail.com
Mon Jan 3 12:06:34 EST 2005


On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:24:56 -0500, aaron <aiperl at rogers.com> wrote:
> I have 512 MB of RAM in my Myth box (combined BE/FE, dedicated machine), and
> NO paging space allocated. This greatly reduces the amount of paging. ;)
> 
> Only problem I've ever had was due to the OpenGL memory leak in MythGallery.
> Other than that I've never had any problems with running out of memory.
> 
> aaron

Well that is one way of dealing with it, lol.  I think setting
swappiness to 0 might just be the way to go.  I don't think myth
really needs the large diskcache (over 150MB) that gets created.  Or
am I wrong on that?


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