<table cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=100% bgcolor=white><tr valign=top><td width=100%><font size=2 color=black>Hello Jarod,<br> <br>--- On Tue 12/23, Jarod C. Wilson < jcw@wilsonet.com > wrote:From: Jarod C. Wilson [mailto: jcw@wilsonet.com]To: brian_scully@excite.com, mythtv-users@mythtv.orgDate: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:07:34 -0800Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] My MythTV journey-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<BR>Hash: SHA1<BR><BR>On Tuesday 23 December 2003 10:00, Brian Scully wrote:<BR>>> Some recommendations based upon my experiences:<BR>>> * Some people tell you that 256MB is enough. top tells me that I am using<BR>>> all but 4-5MB of my 512MB of RAM. I've got about 12MB in swap too. Get<BR>>> plenty of RAM.<BR><BR>>Linux will use up as much as your memory as it can. 512MB is plenty. I'm <BR>>sitting at a dual Athlon system with 1.5GB of RAM, not doing a huge amount of <BR>>stuff, and there isn't a huge amount of RAM "free". Everything gets cached to <BR>>memory for max performance. Again, 512MB is plenty (though I do recommend <BR>>more than 256MB, to avoid swapping). You aren't short on memory.<br> <br>I'm not sure why swap is being used then. I'm no kernel hacker, but it seems <br>strange that you would allow your cache to swap to disk - what performance<br>benefit are you getting? BTW i'm up to 21 MB of swap used now.<BR><BR>>> * Upgrade X as far as is reasonable<BR><BR>>If reasonable means the latest stable version, I agree. (Speaking strictly <BR>>about nForce boards).<br> <br>Depending on your definition of stable: if you use Debian's - it's not quite enough.<BR><BR>>> * Don't use twm or fvwm as your window manager (the whole window<BR>>> positioning thing is a pita) - I like fluxbox, it sticks the window<BR>>> somewhere on the screen w/o my intervention * Try knoppmyth before debian<BR>>> if you're not well seasoned, or coming from RedHat/SuSE like me<BR><BR>>If you were coming from Red Hat/SuSE, why didn'
t you stick to one of those? My <BR>>recommendation is generally to use whatever you're most comfortable with (as <BR>>long as it isn't Windows :).<BR><BR>1) According to the HOWTO, Debian is the recommended compilation system. <br>2) I have also heard quite a bit about how good it is at package management. <br>3) I have in the past been annoyed by RPM<br> <br>I see that you're an RHCE and probably very comfortable hacking on RH/Fedora.<br>Most people on this list probably aren't. KnoppMyth may be a better option for them.<br> <br>Brian<br></font></td></tr></table><p><hr><font size=2 face=geneva><b>Join Excite! - <a href=http://www.excite.com target=_blank>http://www.excite.com</a></b><br>The most personalized portal on the Web!</font>