[mythtv-users] Ack! Need more memory, Capt'n!

[John Drescher]

>
> The system is currently running the mythbackend and it was left in
> "Watch TV" mode. In looking at the output from "top", I'm seeing that
> all but ~6MB of the available 512MB of RAM is used, and swap has not
> been touched at all..


This is absolutly normal in linux. I have 4GB of memory on one of my myth
boxes and I only have a few meg free. The reason for this is linux will
actually use all of your memory for disk cache if no other application needs
it.

John
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