[mythtv-users] Memory Consumption

[Ken Thompson]

That's good to know it only using 40MB of Ram during playback.  Live
playback was constantly pausing due to my crappy system attempting to
free up ram.  My onboard video card was using up 64MB of my precious
ram:(

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Isaac Richards
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 10:01 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Memory Consumption

On Sunday 15 June 2003 09:49 pm, Ken Thompson wrote:
> Ok, it seems as though I have been able to isolate some memory
problems.
> Somewhere in the documentation, mythtv or ivtv said it needs atleast
256
> MB of RAM.  This is a BARE minimum I found out the hard way.  Just
> running mandrake 9.1 with KDE + the mythfilldatabase I am burning a
> whopping 218MB of ram + 14-35% processor time.  With my onboard video
> enabled (64 MB of shared memory. yuck) I get random pauses during live
> TV playback.  Its obvious 512 or > is required to run this program
> correctly.  Btw, I've got a duron 800 (utter crap, I know) with 256 MB
> ram/ Hauppauge 250
>
> This may be old news to lots of you, but I thought it was worth
sharing.

That's funny, I've been running with 256 MB of ram for quite a long
time.  No 
problems.  Mythfilldatabase only uses 20MB or so at most, mythfrontend
will 
use about 40 during playback due to the video buffers, and mythbackend
uses a 
similar amount during software encoding (and much less during hardware 
encoding like you are).

Isaac
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