[mythtv] Memory requirements of current f/e

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:35:50AM -0700, Jack Perveiler wrote:
> >
> > > - Backend is consistently at around 23Mb reserved, but around 200Mb in 
> > > swap (at least it's mostly in swap). CPU usage is 0.7% while recording a 
> > > show
> > I don't know what is consuming all the memory here, what kinds of
> > recorders are you using?
> 
> Just as a reference point, my backend also uses about 200 Mb with about 30 Mb
> resident.  It doesn't seem to leak, it's just always around that size.  I have
> 1 HD3000 and 2 PVR-150 recorders.  The HDRingbufferSize is 18800.

That's fairly standard. When the sizes start going up without coming
back down that's we go hunting for leaks.

Stuart