On 1/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich West</b> <<a href="mailto:Rich.West@wesmo.com">Rich.West@wesmo.com</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;">
However, the question that goes unanswered in the wiki is about<br>performance. Since the entire system is loading and running off of the<br>network (I've got cat-5 wired) *and* mythtv is also going over that same<br>
network, doesn't that beat up on the performance?</blockquote><div><br>Not necessarily. I have an Athlon 64 machine running diskless as a frontend over 100mb ethernet, and don't notice any slowness. Root and everything over NFS. It does HD, too.
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Especially since swap would also be on an NFS mounted volume...</blockquote><div>
<br>Mine is set up with 1gig of memory and no swap configured at all. Right now, it's using just over 300meg of memory for programs/libs and the rest is used up as buffers, which helps with the speed. <br> <br></div>
-- Tony <a href="mailto:brummett@gmail.com">brummett@gmail.com</a><br><br></div><br>