[mythtv-users] finding leaks

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> 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
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OK great, swap has always been low or non-existent.
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