[mythtv-users] mythbackend processes - how many and how much RAM?

[Carl Fongheiser]

On 9/29/05, greg at nodecam.com <greg at nodecam.com> wrote:
>
> My machine has been sluggish lately, so I was trying to figure out why.
> When I run 'top' and sort by memory usage, I see 15 mythbackend's each
> taking ~5% of my RAM - 215M virtual and 48M resident each.
>
> Is that normal? I'm not doing HDTV or anything fancy - single tuner with
> only one remote frontend.


Yes, that's perfectly normal. That's how the multiple threads in mythbackend
appear. They're sharing the RAM, so you're not really having your memory
depleted quite the way that top would make it seem.

Carl Fongheiser
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