On 2/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Ingram</b> <<a href="mailto:adingram@clara.co.uk">adingram@clara.co.uk</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> On 2/6/06, Mark Hetherington <<a href="mailto:redcane@dodo.com.au">redcane@dodo.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>> > I'm not an expert on this, so this is mostly a matter of what I<br>> > believe to be true, but perhaps is not particularly accurate.
<br>> > I think no matter how much RAM you have, linux will still use some<br>> > swap. I think it's partly so it can have stuff already swapped out,<br>> > even if it is in RAM as well, so it doesn't take as long to
<br>> swap when<br>> > needed. I'm fairly certain 512Mb is sufficient unless your<br>> looking at multiple encoders.<br>><br>> top - 20:54:22 up 7 days, 23:10, 3 users, load average:<br>> 2.38, 2.17
, 2.04<br>> Tasks: 122 total, 5 running, 117 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie<br>> Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 6.7% sy, 90.3% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa,<br>> 0.0% hi, 1.7% si<br>> Mem: 1296740k total, 1273420k used, 23320k free,
<br>> 2388k buffers<br>> Swap: 1301256k total, 87264k used, 1213992k free,<br>> 938236k cached<br>><br>> That's my top output and as you can see the system is using a<br>> little bit of swap.. even though I have some free ram.
<br>><br>> I'd have agree with the statement above about linux will<br>> always use a little bit of swap.<br><br>I'm not so sure. Here is my box:<br><br>top - 17:16:17 up 1 day, 17:14, 2 users, load average: 1.03
, 1.02, 1.00<br>Tasks: 114 total, 1 running, 113 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie<br>Cpu(s): 0.2% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.5% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si<br>Mem: 512432k total, 453508k used, 58924k free, 145912k buffers
<br>Swap: 979924k total, 0k used, 979924k free, 90660k cached<br><br>Admittedly, my box had a reboot and has only been up for just over 41 hours,<br>but it's 2 tuners have been recording and playing back quite a bit in that
<br>time.<br><br>Andy<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>As you can see im hardly using any aswell and with 90 days uptime I dont think that matters.<br><br><br>Top<br>-------<br>Tasks: 115 total, 2 running, 111 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
<br>Cpu(s): 19.0% us, 1.4% sy, 0.4% ni, 78.6% id, 0.5% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.0% si<br>Mem: 1035796k total, 1022444k used, 13352k free, 129968k buffers<br>Swap: 2096472k total, 224k used, 2096248k free, 463032k cached
<br><br clear="all">Uptime<br>-----------<br>10:57:10 up 90 days, 14 min, 3 users, load average: 0.22, 0.25, 0.25<br><br><br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br><br>~CM