[mythtv-users] Out Of Ram

[Adam Skinner]

Hello all, 

I know RAM is cheap, and I am planning to buy some more.  My frontend on
this box seems to take way more memory than others - but it is a BE/FE
box unlike the others that are FE only. 

Its is hooked up to an LCD TV at 1080p via HDMI/DVI and runs the retro
theme. I've seen mythfrontend as high as 20% more than below.


  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND   
27091 adam      20   0  679m 216m  40m S    1 24.9   9:51.50 mythfrontend                                                                                    
20354 mythtv    20   0  594m 155m  20m S    0 17.9  23:16.48 mythbackend                                                                                     
23064 root      20   0  163m  68m 7628 S    0  7.9  34:44.46 Xorg                                                                                            
 5557 mysql     20   0  347m  40m 4624 S    0  4.6 119:12.28 mysqld                                                                                          
13887 www-data  20   0  179m  15m 4116 S    0  1.7   0:01.64 apache2                                                                                         
  359 www-data  20   0  177m  14m 3796 S    0  1.6   0:00.14 apache2                                                                                         
29902 www-data  20   0  173m  14m 3548 S    0  1.6   0:00.20 apache2                                                                                         
 5363 bind      20   0  137m  13m 1372 S    0  1.5   0:11.35 named                                                                                           
 6943 root      20   0  166m 7776 4360 S    0  0.9   0:08.52 apache2                                                                                         
21176 root      20   0 75216 5136 1560 S    0  0.6   0:08.48 python                                                                                          
 6465 root      20   0  171m 4668 1724 S    0  0.5   4:22.59 console-kit-dae                                                                                 
 6462 haldaemo  20   0 37312 3856 2048 S    0  0.4   1:13.36 hald                                                                                            
23105 adam      20   0  103m 3732 3044 S    0  0.4   0:35.44 fluxbox     


Could someone please tell me if mythfrontend is eating to much memory or
have other people seen similar levels and therefore dont need to worry?

My box has started to eat into swap, and as a result is a little
sluggish.  As mentioned above I am planning to buy some more RAM.