[mythtv-users] Problems with the new Mythbuntu 25.25 theme

Joseph Fry joe at thefrys.com
Sun Sep 16 05:40:30 UTC 2012


>
>
>  Are you seeing any swap file use?  If not, then it's operating as
> expected... ideally mythfrontend will cache as much as it can to RAM...
> unused memory is a waste.
>
>
> I consider it a problem when I can't run any other programs because
> mythfrontend has eaten all the memory. It's OK when the kernel uses up
> memory for caching but not when a single process uses it all up.
>

Yes, that would be a problem.  Wan't trying to sound condescending, a lot
of users don't understand why Linux systems always seem to use all the
memory.  If the frontend process itself is consuming 2GB of ram, then I
suspect there is an issue.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20120916/60bce4bd/attachment.html>


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list