[mythtv-users] Ack! Need more memory, Capt'n!

[John Drescher]

On 10/23/06, Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> John Drescher wrote:
> >     The system is currently running the mythbackend and it was left in
> >     "Watch TV" mode. In looking at the output from "top", I'm seeing
> that
> >     all but ~6MB of the available 512MB of RAM is used, and swap has not
> >     been touched at all..
> >
> >
> > This is absolutly normal in linux. I have 4GB of memory on one of my
> > myth boxes and I only have a few meg free. The reason for this is linux
> > will actually use all of your memory for disk cache if no other
> > application needs it.
> >
>

It is my main desktop at home. A dual processor Opteron 850 with 4GB of
memory. I got the mem on ebay for $75 per 1 GB dimm.

John
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