[mythtv] Memory requirements of current f/e

Colin Guthrie mythtv at colin.guthr.ie
Wed Apr 12 22:12:04 UTC 2006


Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 4/12/06, Colin Guthrie <mythtv at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Is the frontend using a lot more memory than it used to?
>>
>>Just build latest SVN and it wont even run on my EPIA with 256Mb RAM
>>anymore. SVN from about 3wks ago is fine as have all builds previoulsy....
>>
>>Do I need to buy more ram or is this just a temporary thing?
>>
>>Myth consumes about 20% RAM while it regenerates the themecache then
>>once the progress bars disappear (and I presume the main window is about
>>to appear), memory usage jumps up >30% and eventually is killed by the
>>kernel.... :(
> 
> 
> please read the -dev list if you plan on running SVN.

I do read the -dev list regularly and have done for years. The question 
I was asking, perhaps unclearly was about SVN specifically requiring 
more memory recently.

My r9263 version of SVN is running happily on my NFS root EPIA with 256 
MB ram.  When I built r9686 today, I get OOM errors as Myth and X both 
start to consume a lot of RAM.... I'll try switching themes and see if 
that fixes things.... I'll also borrow a 512Mb chips from somewhere and 
see if that is enough.... I'm thinking 512 will be more senisible 
overall anyway....

Cheers anyway.
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