[mythtv-users] MBE Horsepower...

Johnny jarpublic at gmail.com
Sun Jan 17 23:03:56 UTC 2010


> More RAM is definitely in order.  The system being unresponsive is almost
> certainly because it's hammering the swap file, especially since it's trying
> to concurrently read from and write to the recording files while hammering
> the swap file.

But is it worth putting $90 worth of RAM in this old system? I would
say no. For a little more than $90 You can get a new motherboard,
processor, and RAM that would be much more powerful than the old one.
Throwing a bunch of RAM at the problem wouldn't give nearly the same
bang for your buck.


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