AMD64 3000 with (only) 256mb ram... but everything was perfectly fast before the upgrade. The one thing I've changed since the upgrade is going from ntsc resolution to 720p resolution. I don't know how much this will change performance, but in "top" Xorg and mythfrontend use the most ram.

I think my hd may be failing... saw a few dma errors during installation. But in case that's not it, i was wondering if anyone else noticed an appreciable slowdown in mythfrontend.

I've actually had mythfrontend be killed due to low memory. This has happened two ways, once while i was editing my video preferences in the frontend and another time when i opened up mythtv-setup. Both of these processes took forever to open the new window, and mythfrontend was killed in both instances.

maybe ill get more ram, but it seems silly to have 512mb(+) just for a frontend. It has no problem recording two programs simultaneously.....

I've seen this too. After a fresh install and just after the boot has finished, my box is using 692MB out of 768MB RAM and 66MB out of 1GB swap. The responsiveness is quite miserable. My system is a frontend/backend combo.

someone in another thread i am watching (that wasnt even related to this) pointed out that the widescreen themes use TONS of ram. i downgraded to the old theme and now my machine is as quick as ever. so all that ram is going to painting your desktop.... how fantastic.

glad i didnt buy any extra ram, had some lined up though

I noticed even with the standard theme, I'm now needing to use swap, it does seem that 5E50 is a bit more memory intensive.

Bruce S.

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Bluetube-Wide is a big memory hog. I have 1 GB of ram in my machine and that theme made me use the swap space.

I was running R5E50 with 256MB and the interface was very slow. I bumped it up to 512MB and saw a significant improvement with some occasional interface delays. I tested 1GB briefly and noticed no delays.