[mythtv-users] Memory needs

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 18/10/16 10:32, Tim Draper wrote:
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>  ---- On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 05:22:02 +0100 Mike Carron <jmcarron at gmx.com> wrote ---- 
>  >            Is there a limit to the amount of         memory a headless myth backend can effectively use?       Memory is cheap enough that installing 16 or 32GB of RAM is not       prohibitive as long as it is useful to have that much.
>  >      Thanks,
>  >      mike
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> fwiw, my BE is on a general-use home server (console/terminal only fedora23) so runs  a torrent client, file share, myth BE,  zoneminder, and owncloud. i seem to be runnning 6gb ram (i assume 4gb & 2gb modules) and consumption after 70days uptime is 23%. 4 FE's where only 1 typically gets used at any one time. 
> based on my loading, even 8gb would be a waste.
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> that said, if i were using it as a VM host for a home lab, ram would be goood!
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Yeah, it mainly depends on "what else" you want to put on it.

I have 8Gb ram on my backend, and it's running both a production
instance (0.28-fixes) and a development instance (master) and
still have ~6Gb free memory.

Most of the memory ends up being used by the buffer cache.


Regards
Stuart Auchterlonie
MythTV Developer