[mythtv-users] Theme memory usage

[Yeechang Lee]

Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> says:
> -Is Blue Abstract a particularly memory-hungry theme?  Is it possible 
> it is buggy and is leaking/wasting memory?

Themes can't leak memory, but the underlying MythUI code that
interprets theme code may.

The only meaningful use of memory by themes is fan art. For my ~2000
recordings, the fan art and cover art directories use 500MB. (Is fan
art that no current recording uses deleted?)

> -Or are all the modern, graphical themes THAT memory hungry?  Is 4
> gigs necessary?  More?

I run a combined frontend/backend (database on another box) on
Linux--which has considerably less overhead than OS X--with 2GB of
RAM, and have never seen the truncated message with 0.25. That said, I
have seen swap usage rise since I began using fan art with 0.25; even
if not all of the 500MB extra content that didn't exist with 0.24 is
kept in memory at once, surely some substantial portion is.

> -Is there another modern theme that works better on a 
> memory-constrained system?

Any fan art-less theme will do; themes' other graphical effects have
essentially no effect on memory usage whatsoever.

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