[mythtv-users] Ack! Need more memory, Capt'n!

Rich West Rich.West at wesmo.com
Mon Oct 23 18:20:12 UTC 2006


That's how our main servers + linux have worked in the past, but,
combined with the odd dmesg output, I thought it might be an indicator
of some greater problem.. :)

-Rich

>     The system is currently running the mythbackend and it was left in
>     "Watch TV" mode. In looking at the output from "top", I'm seeing that
>     all but ~6MB of the available 512MB of RAM is used, and swap has not
>     been touched at all..
>
>
> This is absolutly normal in linux. I have 4GB of memory on one of my
> myth boxes and I only have a few meg free. The reason for this is
> linux will actually use all of your memory for disk cache if no other
> application needs it.



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