[mythtv-users] New Frontend, Any gotchas with Compact Flash storage

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Tue Mar 4 01:32:10 UTC 2008


Mike Isely wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Paul Bender wrote:
> 
>> MiniMyth runs the entire image from RAM. However, since the image is 
>> compressed, it is read-only. Therefore, unionfs is used to make it 
>> read-write.
>>
>> MiniMyth supports SDTV resolution displays using 512MB of RAM and 
>> supports HDTV resolution displays using 1024MB of RAM, so 2GB of RAM 
>> would be somewhat overkill.
> 
> The two FE boxes I'm running both do 1080p rendering and support HD 
> video.  One box (much older) only has 512MB of memory.  Also when doing 
> "diskless", you don't get a swap partition either so I tend to think 
> heavy on the RAM anyway.  I agree using a compressed ram disk helps a 
> lot (but not enough in one case for me).  Also, the 2GB in the other 
> machine cost me an entire $49 at newegg - I had planned for 1GB but 
> figured what the heck when I saw the price.

Yes, it is nice that memory is so cheap. I still find it amazing that we 
can get memory for so little money.


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