[mythtv-users] Memory usage

Dwight Hubbard dhubbard at dwightandamy.com
Fri Apr 11 04:36:18 UTC 2003


> Ok, according to TOP mythbackend isn't using much memory (about 15MB).
>
> But yes, my free ram decreased to about 10MB while mythbackend was
> recording? Is this normal?

That's normal, free memory gets utilized for disk cache if it isn't needed
for anything else.  In top the disk cache is shows up as "buff".  So the
actual free memory is the sum of free and buff.




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