[mythtv-users] how to make 0.24 more like 0.21 ?

[Mark Lord]

On 11-10-26 04:15 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
..
> So.. if your system has sufficient RAM (say 2GB for a mythtv FE/BE),
> and you don't want it do use SWAP, then simply don't mount any SWAP space.
> The kernel will do more discarding of process pages than without SWAP,
> but only when under high RAM pressure (rare).  But everything will keep
> running and working just fine, so long as there are no major memory leaks.
..

Further to this, I've not bothered enabling/mounting SWAP space on any of
my systems for the past 4-5 years now, since all of them have 2GB or more RAM.

The world hasn't ended, and my systems continue to work just fine without it,
including the mythtv systems.

Remember, not that long ago, the "advice" was to have as much SWAP as RAM,
and systems typically had only 512MB -> 1GB of RAM.  So add that much SWAP
to the RAM number, and you get.. 1GB-2GB total.

Rather than bothering with SWAP, I just prefer to get the same 2GB total
by using real RAM.

Cheers