[mythtv-users] Memory performance on Nvidia ION

[Gerald Brandt]

> Thanks for your questions, I will try to add 1GB more, it must be same
> model?
> 
> This is my "top" output:
> 
> $ top
> 
> top - 19:52:25 up 21 min, 3 users, load average: 4.11, 3.95, 2.69
> Tasks: 206 total, 1 running, 205 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 4.1%us, 2.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 28.1%id, 64.9%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.6%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem: 1553252k total, 1519792k used, 33460k free, 9440k buffers
> Swap: 3542008k total, 10436k used, 3531572k free, 1152528k cached
> 
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 2254 debian-t 20 0 44548 5680 1588 S 19 0.4 4:06.80 transmission-da
> 3143 lazkano 20 0 361m 100m 39m S 2 6.6 0:05.84 mythfrontend
> 3322 lazkano 20 0 2464 1224 896 R 1 0.1 0:00.87 top
> 47 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.39 kswapd0
> 1172 lazkano 20 0 58684 2952 1616 S 0 0.2 0:04.23 amuled
> 1527 mysql 20 0 140m 20m 2892 S 0 1.3 0:04.29 mysqld
> 2793 lazkano 20 0 76480 7768 6204 S 0 0.5 0:00.35 trashapplet
> 1 root 20 0 2032 584 552 S 0 0.0 0:01.42 init
> 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
> 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
> 4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.03 ksoftirqd/0
> 5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
> 6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
> 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
> 8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
> 9 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/2
> 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/2
> 
> Is this normal?
> 
> Sorry about all questions, but I want to get the best of this little
> ION board. Is there any memory performance to do on it?
> 
> Thanks and best regards.
> 

This is mine:

top - 16:43:12 up 7 days, 41 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.76, 1.78, 1.79
Tasks: 169 total,   1 running, 168 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  7.5%us,  6.8%sy,  0.1%ni, 71.7%id, 11.7%wa,  0.0%hi,  2.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1541944k total,  1489920k used,    52024k free,   174348k buffers
Swap:  1485976k total,    43832k used,  1442144k free,   494688k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 1619 gbr       20   0 1631m 493m  42m S   18 32.8 644:17.69 mythfrontend.re    
22471 mythtv    20   0  116m  40m  18m D   17  2.7   0:00.52 mythbackend        
 1167 root      20   0 68584  19m  15m S    2  1.3  41:45.27 Xorg               
22435 root      20   0  2620 1136  840 R    1  0.1   0:00.12 top                
    1 root      20   0  3004 1604 1168 S    1  0.1  15:57.17 init               
   31 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   5:03.35 kblockd/0          
  334 root      20   0     0    0    0 D    0  0.0  19:26.40 jbd2/sda1-8        
  860 syslog    20   0 35508  796  796 S    0  0.1   4:46.87 rsyslogd           
  873 messageb  20   0  3336 1368  812 S    0  0.1   2:00.47 dbus-daemon        
 1634 gbr       20   0  147m 124m 3792 S    0  8.3   1:47.90 gnome-power-man    
 1821 gbr       20   0 26988 2332 1080 S    0  0.2   0:04.02 gnome-screensav    
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:25.22 ksoftirqd/0        
    4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.62 migration/0        
    5 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.36 migration/1        
    7 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:07.09 ksoftirqd/1       

Frontend only, and no extraneous software like transmission or amule running.

I think I only have one stick of RAM in it as well.

Gerald