[mythtv-users] Freevo, Tivo & MythTV

[David Brodbeck]

Enigma wrote:
> Huh?  My file server which has been up for 56 days has 512 MB of RAM, it 
> is showing 5.6 MB free RAM and is using 450 MB for disk cache, but is 
> only using 140k of swap.  A MythTV Slave BE/FE box with an uptime of 3 
> days has similar stats, 512 MB total, 5.4 MB free, 278 MB cache and 28k 
> of swap.  If you are really swapping out that much I would suspect you 
> had a memory-hungry application open at some point. 
>   

Probably mythfilldatabase.  It takes up a good chunk of RAM.  On my 256
MB frontend/backend system with 512 MB of swap, I come within a gnat's
whisker of running out of swap when it runs.