[mythtv-users] finding leaks
Eric Sharkey
eric at lisaneric.org
Mon Sep 1 18:13:13 UTC 2014
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But before you do that, why don't you back up a few steps? What are
>> you using to determine your RAM usage? Which processes are are
>> consuming the most memory? Have you used "top" with sort-by-memory
>> (press shift-m)?
>
> From the frontend menu>information center>system status I see ram usage
> steadily increase during use.
> from what I'm hearing now, probably not a bad thing? my bad.
Not a bad thing.
What you want to look out for is the line below that, "swap". If a
significant amount of swap is used, then you may have a problem. If
swap usage is low (~5% or less) then your system is doing fine, even
if RAM is reported at 100% used.
Eric
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