[mythtv-users] Upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit and maybe a distro switch?

[John Drescher]

> The one thing that has not been mentioned about extra RAM in a box is
> the automatic filesystem cache. From memory, looking at my 4GB RAM
> mythbuntu install, there was 2.5GB of RAM consumed for filesystem
> caching.
>

jmd0 ~ # free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5951       5899         51          0         25       4610
-/+ buffers/cache:       1263       4688
Swap:        15313         47      15266


4.6GB of cache here..

John