[mythtv-users] Found answer for random backend crashes

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Jul 22 21:26:04 EDT 2004


On Thursday 22 July 2004 08:01 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Ben Brown wrote:
> >I've been running mythtv for about 2.5 years.  Been on the same box the
> >whole time.  When I upgraded to the latest version, I started having all
> >sorts of backend problems.  Crashes, bad recordings, etc.  I found that
> >upgrading my ram to 512MB fixed all my problems.  Not sure what changed in
> >the latest release of myth, but it seems to need more memory then it
> > earlier brethren.  Just thought I'd share
>
> Out of curiosity, how did you upgrade to 512MB?  Replace a 256MB stick
> with a 512MB stick (in which case it may have been memory gone bad) or
> just add another 256MB stick?  My machine (combined
> frontend/backend)--which has 512MB--is using less than 256MB RAM (and no
> swap space), so I was just wondering...

And another data point - my main 'production' machine (epia-m, pvr-350) is 
quite happy with 256MB of RAM as well.

Isaac


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