[mythtv-users] Hardware Sanity Check

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Thu Jun 8 00:13:24 UTC 2006


Mark A. Hoover wrote:

>>------------------------------
>>From: Allan Stirling <Dibblahmythml0015 at pendor.org>
>>
>>>I initially went with 512MB, but since I'm not installing a hard drive and
>>>will be PXE booting/NFS mounting the filesystems, I thought the extra
>>>memory might be helpful.
>>
>>Just a quick comment which may or may not be helpful.
>>
>>Network swap works over nbd just fine. There are apparently
>>some corner-cases which it breaks on, but I haven't seen any.
> 
> 
> What about running swapless?  I would think on a box that has 1GB RAM and 
> nothing running but Myth that one wouldn't need swap?

MiniMyth runs without swap using 512MB of RAM, so running without swap 
should be fine.


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