[mythtv] Myth Theme Memory Usage
Chris Tracy
mythtv at adiemus.org
Fri Dec 3 03:15:20 UTC 2004
Myth in CVS uses an gargantuan amount of RAM in certain themes. I'm
installing a mythbox for a friend on a system with 256MB and noticed
sluggishness just moving around the menus. Turns out it was trashing the
disk before myth had even finished loading. Ran a test on a single
instance of mythfrontend, just cycling through the themes. Here's the
memory stats as reported by top after the theme finished loading
completely:
SIZE RSS SHARE
GANT: 105M 100M 10M
Blue: 34M 23M 9M
Titivillus: 143M 136M 7M
I could just use blue, but the version of blue in CVS is, umm,
less-than-savory to my taste. (Bring back blue-classic! I've got it on
my main mythbox and don't know what I'm going to do next time I want to
push the latest CVS onto it.) I guess I'll see if I can't retrofit an
older copy of blue into CVS current for now. But I figured this memory
usage was extreme enough to count as a bug.
Chris
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