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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/11/2018 03:44, George Bingham
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<div dir="ltr">Hey all,
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<div>This may be a dumb question, but is it as simple as adding
the PPA for v29 and telling apt to update (or upgrade?) mythtv
backend and frontend? </div>
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<div>I can't upgrade to 18.04 due to an ancient video card that
requires the 304 driver. But I recently heard that a memory
leak has been fixed in MythTV 29. I have an older server with
4 Gigs of ram that needs to be rebooted every few days due to
memory issues. </div>
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<div>Sorry if this has been covered on this list, but I watch it
pretty closely and just don't remember if this specific
question has been asked. I only know I shouldn't bother
upgrading to 18.04 due to my reliance on the nvidia 304 driver
from this list, and I heard about the memory leak fix from
this list too. </div>
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<div>Thanks for any advice! </div>
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<p>Yes, it is that simple, but use dist-upgrade, needed when going
from one mythtv version to the next::</p>
<p>sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mythbuntu/0.29</p>
<p>sudo apt update</p>
<p>sudo apt dist-upgrade</p>
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<p>4 Gigs of ram is fine.</p>
<p>If you are using external xmltv data (e.g. Schedules Direct) with
mythfilldatabase, set it to use the --no-allatonce argument in
mythtv-setup.</p>
<p>Current implementation of mythfilldatabase can use lots of memory
depending on how many channels you have.</p>
<p> --no-allatonce reduces this dramatically, by grabbing in
multiples of 1 day instead of all at once (default for some
grabbers).</p>
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<p>Mike<br>
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