[mythtv-users] what is the memory requirements of MythTV on Fedora 8

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 15, 2008, at 10:59 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:

> mtrax11 napsal(a):
>> I have 512Mb and the swap file seems to show about 100mb , which I  
>> assume
>> that I'm reaching the top of available phyiscal memory.. assuming  
>> that I can
>> get 2x512mb or should I just goto 2x1Gb DDR sticks
>
> Using of swap file is not bad thing per se. Swapping happened even if
> your memory is not full. If some memory is not used for very long, it
> got swapped just to free some memory to be ready if some process need
> more space.
> 512MB is fine, but mine system (Debian) use 612MB. So 2*512 should be
> enough for everybody (tm). 2*1Gb is IMO overkill.

Yes, but you can also use up some of that overkill by giving MySQL a  
huge amount of memory which will result in lots of caching of queries  
in memory and giving excellent performance. There's a good thread  
about this here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/318648