[mythtv] Myth Theme Memory Usage

Ashley Bostock abostock at gmail.com
Fri Dec 3 08:14:34 UTC 2004


Bring back blue-classic!  <-- I'm with you on that!


On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:15:20 -0800 (PST), Chris Tracy <mythtv at adiemus.org> wrote:
> 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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