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

[Calvin Harrigan]

John Drescher wrote:
>     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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4 Gigs?!  What in the world are you doing with that much memory on a
myth box?  Tell me it's also a file server/web server/ and desktop with 
that much memory.