[mythtv-users] Is 4GB RAM overkill for mythtv?

[David Brodbeck]

On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Captain Krypto wrote:
> Would mythtv use all of the RAM?  Would more RAM speed up re- 
> encoding of programs?  Would more RAM be beneficial to commercial  
> flagging?

MythTV itself won't use all of it, but Linux will use it to provide  
disk cache, which will help speed up disk access.  So you'll get some  
benefit.  This could conceivably speed up commercial flagging of a  
program that was just recorded, since the commercial flagger will be  
reading data that's already cached in RAM.