[mythtv-users] Mythweb Slow to Render Program Detail Page as Selected From Recorded Programs page

[Johnny Walker]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What does the system's free memory look like while you're doing this?
>>>
>>> -Johnny
>>
>>> The system is basically at 90% idle all the time. I have looked a the
>>> mythbackend.log and there is nothing there that would suggest a problem. The
>>> system has 1GB of memory and 4GB of swap and there is nothing in top to show
>>> that memory is a problem anywhere.
>>>
>>> -- Mache
>>
>> I had 2 Gigs of Ram in my backend and I was starting to swap to disk
>> when I used mythweb. I added 2 more gigs and now mythweb doesn't cause
>> me to swap out to disk. Using swap memory is much slower than actual
>> memory. The problem is compounded if you're running mysql-server,
>> Apache, mythbackend and the OS all on 1 physical hard drive.
>>
>> Swap is slow - I would avoid using it if you can.
>>
>> -Johnny
>
> For what it's worth, my backend has 512MB of ram and I've never had a
> problem with it or with mythweb.  What sort of activity in mythweb was
> causing that sort of memory use?  If that were typical it would have
> used up my ram and swap which would most likely have brought the
> machine down.  I think that program searches in 0.21 used to be broken
> and would reach the php maximum allowed memory.
>
> Tom

Great - now I've got another problem to look into.

-Johnny