[mythtv-users] finding leaks

[Eric Sharkey]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But before you do that, why don't you back up a few steps?  What are
>> you using to determine your RAM usage?  Which processes are are
>> consuming the most memory?  Have you used "top" with sort-by-memory
>> (press shift-m)?
>
> From the frontend menu>information center>system status I see ram usage
> steadily increase during use.
> from what I'm hearing now, probably not a bad thing? my bad.

Not a bad thing.

What you want to look out for is the line below that, "swap".  If a
significant amount of swap is used, then you may have a problem.  If
swap usage is low (~5% or less) then your system is doing fine, even
if RAM is reported at 100% used.

Eric