<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick Tan</b> <<a href="mailto:nick@wehi.edu.au">nick@wehi.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>><br>> I know you've been tinkering with both OS X and Fedora on that mini - what<br>> are you running on it most of the time? The reason I ask is that I<br>> noticed that OS X on my mini really performed poorly when swapping. I
<br>> don't know if there's something wrong with the OS X virtual memory<br>> implementation, but I don't remember the last time an OS dragged like<br>> that.*<br><br>My experience with OSX is that the
kern.sysv.shmmax sysctl is set very<br>low and needs to be increased. You can put it in /etc/sysctl.conf<br>(which I don't think exists by default but I could be wrong on that).<br><br>I also found that using sysctl -w doesn't work - I needed to put the
<br>entry into /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot.<br><br>Nick<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><br>On Linux, does XvMC work / help any?<br><br>If I wanted to have 2 VMs in VMware Server for my personal web dev needs, could they prolly sit next to myth without much trouble if i had a 2 GHz C2D in my Mini?
<br>I'm thinking Apache, PHP5, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Samba on one and Apache, PHP5, Trac, SVN, phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin, and Samba on the other.<br>Since they're for my personal use, I don't see them being utilized while I watch TV...at least not heavily.
<br><br>If I could play back 1080i or 720p or SD digital unencrypted QAM or MPEG2 from a PVRUSB2 while leaving those two VMs humming along in the background [not suspended or anything like that] all on a 2 GHz C2D Mini with 2 GB RAM, that would be exactly what I want. It'd be smaller, faster, cooler, and quieter than a bulky Athlon64 3000+.
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