[mythtv-users] Swap optimization
Asher Schaffer
freedenizen at gmail.com
Sun Jan 2 18:28:19 EST 2005
I'm curious what people have done about memory optimization in their
myth boxes. I'm running a combination FE/BE on an EPIA M10000 with
512MB of RAM, so keeping things clean is rather critical to keeping it
all usable. That said, I am running Azureus on this machine as well
which can be a huge memory hog, not to mention it causes a huge amount
of disk caching to occur. Combine that was something like commercial
flagging and show recording and I have a huge amount (IMO) of swap
space being used.
At the moment I have 44MB of free memory, 7MB of buffer, 322MB
cached, and 80MB swapped. The swapped space easily goes up to 180MB
at times. I know there has been a lot of discussion on kernel lists
about vm.swappiness, I currently have mine set to 40, but I could turn
it down.
I guess this post doesn't entirely have a question, I just wanted to
open a discussion of what behavior people are seeing on their systems,
does it seem like mythfrontend is getting swapped to disk after being
inactive for a while? And if so, is it causing a noticeable delay
when someone tries to use it again?
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