[mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

[Ross Campbell]

> I was just hoping to speed up my machine a bit, but maybe I should
> change from Fedora Core 3 to something lighter.

If you want to speed your machine up a bit without reinstalling your
OS, the top few suggestions I would make are:


1) If you have a software-only TV card, get a PVR-X50
2) If you don't have a decent graphics card, spend $70 and get a GeForce FX5200
3) Disable GNOME/KDE and use a lightweight windowmanager like fluxbox,
fvwm, etc.
4) Disable any non-essential services in your startup scripts
5) Close any ports that don't need to be open in your inetd.conf/xinetd.conf
6) Check system stats with 'cat /proc/meminfo', sar, iostat, vmstat -
react accordingly. If you're RAM limited, add ram. If you're spending
lots of system time waiting for your disk, get a faster disk and/or
balance disk I/O across multiple spindles
7) ensure that your IDE drives are using dma (google for dma linux hdparm)
8) use a simple theme in MythTV and disable cpu-intensive options like
transparency and other OSD options.


-Ross