[mythtv-users] Freevo, Tivo & MythTV

[Marco Nelissen]

>Marco Nelissen wrote:
>> You're lucky then. I have to wait anywhere from 6 to 17 seconds to go to
>> live TV, and channel changing is about 6 seconds on a good day.
>
>I see the long delay when I start live TV mode, but from then on channel
>changes are only a few seconds.  Certainly not six.  I suspect the long
>delay on switching to live TV is because I don't have enough RAM and the
>system is swapping when I change from one function to another, but I
>haven't bought another stick of RAM to verify this, yet.  With only 256
>megabytes of RAM and both the frontend and backend running I use a
>significant amount of swap.

I have 512MB and it's a combined front/back end. I read that mythtv
requires 256MB, so I figured I'd double that and be extra-safe. Would
adding more memory help in any way with channel-change speed?