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Ward Vandewege <ward at pong.be> writes:
> I've got a MythTV box running on a PII 500MHz (I think, it could be a bit
> slower even), with 128MB RAM. It has a Hauppauge PVR350, so it does encoding
> and decoding in hardware.
>
> The interface is a big sluggish sometimes, but recording/playback cause no
> problems. The box is both MythTV backend and frontend.
Oh, if it's both a backend and a frontend I bet the sluggishness is
swapping.. It's also running mysql, and having that, the backend, and
the frontend, and X all in RAM is probably more than you can fit in
128MB.
-derek
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