[mythtv-users] Freevo, Tivo & MythTV

[Marco Nelissen]

>Marco Nelissen wrote:
>> Just to be clear: 17 seconds was my absolute worst case for going to
>> live TV. This was right after launching mythtv, and without using
>> XvMC. If I use XvMC it's much better, and if I've already gone to
>> live TV once, it's even better.
>
>Hmm.  "It's faster after I've been there once before" is a classic
>symptom of swapping.  I bet it's faster the second time because the live
>TV parts of the app are already in RAM, instead of having to be swapped in.

Well, yes and no. Linux doesn't load the entire app into RAM when it starts,
it's paged in on demand. First time you use *any* function, it will have
to be paged in. That doesn't necessarily mean you'r swapping.

>How much RAM do you have in your system?  Memory requirements got
>significantly larger with 0.20, for reasons no one seems to be able to
>pin down.  That may be why some people are seeing more delays than they
>did with 0.19.

I have 512MB. I also haven't switched to 0.20 yet. Too many reports of
it being slower ;)