[mythtv-users] Is 4GB RAM overkill for mythtv?
jedi at mishnet.org
jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Feb 21 22:24:22 UTC 2008
> I guess it depends on the CPU. A Pentium 2 with 1 GB of ram will likely
> be
> CPU bound, but a C2D Extreem overclocked to 4.3 ghz will likely be i/o
> bound
> with the 1 GB of ram. Same goes with running on a dual 4 core Xeon system
> with 1 gb of ram.
>
> Jedi, what cpu's do you have on your backend and frontend? Do you have a
> monster CPU with 512mb of memory and a something slower with 1gb?
Backend: X2 3800 1GB
Frontend: Core Duo 1.66Gz 512MB (stock mac mini)
Both machines are dedicated as a FE or BE.
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:11 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > Commercial flagging runs 2x the speed on my frontend as it does on
>> > my backend. My frontend only has 512M whereas my backend has 1G. I
>> > would expect any myth jobs to be cpu bound rather than IO bound.
>> >
>> Anything to do with transcoding, or mytharchive, commercial cutting I
>> have found to be IO bound.
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