[mythtv-users] Is 4GB RAM overkill for mythtv?

Yeechang Lee ylee at pobox.com
Tue Feb 26 02:05:07 UTC 2008


Matthew McClement <mythtv at macker.co.uk> says:
> Assuming the select involves most of the program table, you can
> guestimate things by doing a "show table status where Name =
> 'program'\G" and looking at Avg_row_length.

In my case, avg_row_length turned out to be 225, so I stepped up the
four settings to 6M (thus above 225*20000=4.3M).

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