[mythtv-users] Gentoo 64bit and MythTV completely compatible?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sat Jan 27 20:30:27 UTC 2007


On Jan 27, 2007, at 1:16 PM, John Drescher wrote:

>>
> Well, my biggest reason was to support 4+GB of memory. When I bought
> my new system I purchased 4GB of memory with the idea of adding a
> second 4GB of memory so that I could have fast running of mytharchive
> as during the processing most of the data will be in cache.
>
> BTW, if anyone thinks I am nuts for wanting this much memory for this
> I paid $300US for 4GB of PC3200 REG ECC around a year ago and I assume
> the price will be lower now.

You're not nuts, sounds like you just want to be ready for a  
"minimal" Vista install :-)

I admit my first thought was why so much RAM on a Myth system, but  
what you say about speeding up Mytharchive makes sense.

You can never have too much RAM.


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