[mythtv-users] thrashing hard drive

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:10 PM, jansenj
<jansenj+myth at gmail.com<jansenj%2Bmyth at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> > When it happens, run 'free' to see how much swap is being used.
> > I have 4gb of ram and I never use swap.
>
> Swap does get used at times, but is on the same disk as root and mysql
> database.  Do I really need more ram for the activity I am trying?


I guess really the question is, what problem are you trying to solve?
Looking back at the OP, you didn't say you had any problems, just didn't
like the "head thrashing".  Obvious answers for your 1 disk situation is to
buy more disks and spread the load.

Kevin
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