[mythtv-users] Memory usage

Vincent Colombo vcolombo at wi.rr.com
Fri Apr 11 04:35:30 UTC 2003


Ah. Alright. Sorry 'bout that.


On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 11:36  PM, Dwight Hubbard wrote:

>> 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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