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

[greg at nodecam.com]

> 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.

Excellent.  Thanks for the quick response.

Greg