[mythtv-users] Mythtv gentoo question

[david brooke]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:

>
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:27 PM, david brooke <david2012brooke at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >> I just completed a gentoo install with Mythtv. After running Mythtv
> >> overnight I noticed that the memory usage increased from 350M to over
> >> 1G.
> >> What can I do to limit the memory usage? I will post my info over on
> >> Gentoo
> >> forums and add that url here.
> >
> > I'd be interested in whether that is typical behavior on other
> > distros.  I see that my virtual size for mythbacked is up to about
> > 4.7G, but resident size is only 200M or so (and I've patched my
> > mythbackend to use larger buffers - that isn't in the Gentoo package).
> > I'm not sure what causes the virtual memory use, but since the kernel
> > oversubscribes that I don't think it should hurt anything unless it
> > gets REALLY bad.
> >
>
> Sounds very similar to my Gentoo backend - 100M resident, 3.8G VSZ after 5
> days. I've seen much bigger numbers in the past without an issue. Thats
> feeding 1Tb of raid5 partition from 2 DVB-S, 1 DVB-T tuners and an analog
> connection for an STB.
>
> --
> Robin Gilks
>
>
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Here is the url I posted on gentoo forums:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7688624.html#7688624
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