On Jan 23, 2008 8:39 PM, Michael T. Dean <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 01/23/2008 02:17 PM, Mitch Gore wrote:<br>> On Jan 23, 2008 12:43 PM, Michael T. Dean <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> On 01/23/2008 01:15 PM, Mitch Gore wrote:<br>
>><br>>>> Ok, i do a have a 8gb disk i removed from my Xbox when i modded it.<br>>>> Will that be sufficient for system, logs, and db?. its only a 5400rpm.<br>>>><br>>>> I also forgot to mention. When all this is going on and i move the<br>
>>> mouse the system is so slow that the mouse jumps across the screen.<br>>>><br>>>> And when closing mythfrontend on the 1080p display the screen builds<br>>>> so slow that it takes seconds to move from howing the desktop and the<br>
>>> mythbackround to load. (Does this make sense i may need to take a<br>>>> picture of what i mean)<br>>>><br>>> I/O wait + swap = ^^^^<br>>><br>>> The 8GB disk should be enough, but make sure you keep your logs clean<br>
>> (and don't do bin logging in MySQL). Might need more memory, too. (I<br>>> recommend at least 512MB--possibly more, depending on your choice of<br>>> theme--whose effects are magnified by screen resolution.)<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Well i can say for sure that when i load mythfrontend using blootube wide it<br>> takes a good 250mb of RAM.<br>><br><br></div>Yeah. blootube-wide is one of the more memory hungry themes. You can't<br>
get that kind of beauty for free. ;)<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> I have a Gig of ram but a 128mb is allocated to my video card. so i have<br>> about 870mb for system memory.<br>><br><br></div>A gig of RAM should be more than enough. The video card's using shared<br>
memory is probably more of an issue than available RAM--primarily<br>because you're doing HDTV. Have access to an NVIDIA 5200+ and an<br>appropriate slot?<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> I will rebuild my box on my 8gig drive and see if that helps. if that<br>
> doesn't fix it should i go more memory (1 or 2 gig) or video card?<br><br></div>That's definitely the best place to start.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>Well after rebuilding the system on the 10 gig drive i still have the same issues. when playing HD and commflaging and any disk access occurs i get pauses in video. so when a recording ends that disk access studders the video. <br>
<br>Would moving to 32 bit help at all?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Mitchell<br>