[mythtv-users] Performance from a different perspective

Trey Boudreau trey at treysoft.com
Mon Jan 23 01:03:50 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:42:50PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> 
> Nobody ever complained about having too much CPU, or RAM, I'd go for  
> the best I could afford.
>
Sometimes "all the CPU you can afford" choice gets you into the "more
fan noise than you can stand" configuration.

As to RAM, you'd do well to follow my First Law of Computing:

  Thou shalt not swap.

After that, you just waste electricity on refresh you never use.

-- Trey


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