[mythtv-users] Will moving to DDR-400 memory from DDR-333 improve performance?

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Mon, 2006-30-10 at 18:20 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:  
> 
> I haven't had any stutters or drops, but I did notice the increase in
> memory usage.  With 256 megabytes of RAM and 512 megabytes of swap I now
> come very close to running out of swap when mythfilldatabase runs. 

I do run out of memory.  I have 256MB ram and 1G swap and my box still
ooms every now and then running mythfilldatabase.

> Every so often I also get long pauses after choosing menu items due to
> the system having to swap.

Yup.  With lots of disk thrashing while it pauses.

> Right now I'm just living with it because I
> don't have an extra $65 to drop on a 512 megabyte stick of SDRAM, but
> that's how I plan to solve the problem.

Yeah, I suppose I will end up doing that too.  It just sucks to have to.
I have to find SDRAM (i.e. PC-100) to do that though.

b.

-- 
My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.

Brian J. Murrell
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