[mythtv-users] Out Of Ram

[Alex Butcher]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Aaron Klein wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Alex Butcher <mythlist at assursys.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Adam Skinner wrote:
>>
>>> I know RAM is cheap, and I am planning to buy some more.  My frontend on
>>> this box seems to take way more memory than others - but it is a BE/FE
>>> box unlike the others that are FE only.
>>>
>>> Its is hooked up to an LCD TV at 1080p via HDMI/DVI and runs the retro
>>> theme. I've seen mythfrontend as high as 20% more than below.
>>>
>>>
>>>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>> 27091 adam      20   0  679m 216m  40m S    1 24.9   9:51.50 mythfrontend
>>> 20354 mythtv    20   0  594m 155m  20m S    0 17.9  23:16.48 mythbackend
>>> 23064 root      20   0  163m  68m 7628 S    0  7.9  34:44.46 Xorg
>>> 5557 mysql     20   0  347m  40m 4624 S    0  4.6 119:12.28 mysqld
>>
>> Ouch!
>>
>> From my combined 0.21-fixes BE/FE from ATrpms running on FC8, using th
>> MythCenter-wide theme:
>>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>> 17979 mythtv    20   0  294m 119m  53m R  1.3 15.8 130:33.68 mythfrontend
>>  3613 root      20   0 59444  42m 6700 S  0.3  5.6  69:46.03 X
>>  2943 mysql     20   0  162m  39m 4784 S  0.0  5.3  18:53.71 mysqld
>> 17929 root      20   0  300m  26m 9688 S  0.7  3.4  64:36.24 mythbackend
>>
>
> Isn't that a % of memory?  Wouldn't we need to know how much memory is
> installed in the system prior to knowing if that % is excessive or
> not?

VIRT, RES and SHR are absolute figures. Nearly all of Adam's processes are
consuming ~2x the amount of virtual memory as mine.

Best Regards,
Alex.