[mythtv-users] My MythTV journey

[Brian Scully]

 Hello Jarod, --- On Tue 12/23, Jarod C. Wilson < jcw at wilsonet.com > wrote:From: Jarod C. Wilson [mailto: jcw at wilsonet.com]To: brian_scully at excite.com, mythtv-users at mythtv.orgDate: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:07:34 -0800Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] My MythTV journey-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1On Tuesday 23 December 2003 10:00, Brian Scully wrote:>> Some recommendations based upon my experiences:>> * Some people tell you that 256MB is enough. top tells me that I am using>> all but 4-5MB of my 512MB of RAM. I've got about 12MB in swap too. Get>> plenty of RAM.>Linux will use up as much as your memory as it can. 512MB is plenty. I'm >sitting at a dual Athlon system with 1.5GB of RAM, not doing a huge amount of >stuff, and there isn't a huge amount of RAM "free". Everything gets cached to >memory for max performance. Again, 512MB is plenty (though I do recommend >more than 256MB, to avoid swapping). You aren't short on memory. I'm not sure why swap is being used then.  I'm no kernel hacker, but it seems strange that you would allow your cache to swap to disk - what performancebenefit are you getting?  BTW i'm up to 21 MB of swap used now.>> * Upgrade X as far as is reasonable>If reasonable means the latest stable version, I agree. (Speaking strictly >about nForce boards). Depending on your definition of stable: if you use Debian's - it's not quite enough.>> * Don't use twm or fvwm as your window manager (the whole window>> positioning thing is a pita) - I like fluxbox, it sticks the window>> somewhere on the screen w/o my intervention * Try knoppmyth before debian>> if you're not well seasoned, or coming from RedHat/SuSE like me>If you were coming from Red Hat/SuSE, why didn't you stick to one of those? My >recommendation is generally to use whatever you're most comfortable with (as >long as it isn't Windows :).1) According to the HOWTO, Debian is the recommended compilation system.  2) I have also heard quite a bit abou
t how good it is at package management.  3) I have in the past been annoyed by RPM I see that you're an RHCE and probably very comfortable hacking on RH/Fedora.Most people on this list probably aren't.  KnoppMyth may be a better option for them. Brian

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