[mythtv-users] how to keep executables resident?

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Jan 21 09:13:28 EST 2004


On Wednesday 21 January 2004 02:37, David Jeske wrote:
> Every time I come back to my mythtv box, it has to churn on the disk
> to bring executables resident again. This is to be expected. Because
> MythTV is constantly recording large amounts of data to disk, the
> buffers expand and push out non-active code pages. Even if I turn off
> swap, executables seem to get pushed out and demand loaded back from
> the executable.
>
> I think this pausing for reloading sometimes happens just when I'm
> trying to move to different parts of the mythtv software.
>
> Has anyone found a way to avoid this behavior? One solution would be
> merely to limit the amount of buffer cache linux will use for a given
> partition, but I can't figure out any way to do this.

Get lots of memory and turn off your swap partition :-)

-JAC



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