[mythtv-users] Upgrading from .25 to .26 worthwhile?

[Michael Watson]

On 16/08/2013 10:44 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 16 August 2013 00:31, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>
>> I recently upgraded from 0.25 to 0.26.  0.26 seems to be considerably more
>> memory hungry.  My backend/frontend/database manger all run on an older
>> Core2 Duo with 2 GB of RAM.  The machine is now heavily into swap.
>> Previously I also ran MythWeb (via Apache2) on the same machine.  I also
>> switched to MythCenter-Wide to try to reduce RAM requirements for the
>> frontend.  I used to use another theme that showed fan art and whatnot
>> (can't remember which, offhand).
> Well, it's not.
>
> 0.26 won't use any more memory than 0.25, in fact it uses less thanks
> to all the fixes that went in and the various leaks discovered.
Initially I recall that 0.26 used more memory than 0.25 on my backend, 
but did not effect performance.   Was my experience that 0.26 ran as 
smoothly as 0.25 did on my antiquated setup  [All PC equipment is at 
least 4 year old, Ive paid nothing for my Myth Hardware other than 
tuners, and hard drives - and power].  (0.26 ran well on a P4 2.8Ghz, 
1GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS as a Frontend).  The same equipment 
runs 0.27 happily as well, the only issue I have with 0.27 is that the 
MBE restarts when a SBE connects)


>> Also, the backend may be using a lot more CPU while recording from the
>> HDHomerun (North American OTA).  Last night, it was recording a single HD
>> showing but the backend was using 30-35% of one core. Previously, I believe
>> it used 7-9%!  Comflagging was also running. The frontend was
>> unusable--frequent 3-5 second pauses.  Need to check this out before the
>> fall premiere season starts!
> Unfortunately, it seems that people upgrading not just mythtv but
> other part of the system tends to blame mythtv for everything
>
> I upgraded to 0.27 yesterday, and now it's raining outside.. there
> must be a link
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