[mythtv-users] OT: Get off my SSD?!

[Thomas Mørch]

2009/9/24 Tony Bones <aaroboneml at gmail.com>

> Don't worry about the swap, get rid of it if you have enough ram.  I'm
> running a diskless client via NFS root without any swap and 2GB of ram.  I
> also have /tmp and /var/tmp (for portage compiling) in a tmpfs and I never
> run out of ram.  I usually only run mythfrontend; playing HD videos, music,
> pictures, dvd, and sometimes I run firefox.  All on top of openbox which is
> super lightweight.
>
> Point being, I've never had a problem without a swap partition.
>
>
My frontend have 512Mb of ram, it's even running from a ramdisk (96Mb
image), loaded from my tftp server at boot time. when watching live tv I
have 162Mb of ram free..

So I would say that anything from 512mb and up, you don't need swap for a
frontend.

/ Thomas
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