Curious to know what theme you were running on the .23 mythfrontend when you were watching memory?
Robert On May 16, 2:08 pm, Paul <pwoodw...@wwf.org.uk> wrote: > The main driver for 10.04 on atv was so I could run upgraded myth FE > (0.23). I have applied your suggested changes and got a very minimal > setup of ubuntu 9.10. Even with this, I cannot use Mythfrontend 0.23 > even under ratpoison, memory use is just too high, swapping is rife. > Doesn't matter what OS I'm running, the 0.23 FE alone really wants > more RAM than atv has. > > Looks like XBMC is the way to go on the ATV. It doesn't grab hundreds > of MB of RAM. To use that it doesn't really matter if I use 10.04 or > stick with 9.10... > > So in summary you can use Lucid on atv, but not myth frontend 0.23. > Unless you really don't mind the swapping. > > Paul. > > On 6 May, 19:44, Robert Baptista <rob...@rbcardiff.net> wrote: > > > > > Here's a few commands from my script that strips out a few things from > > 9.10. You may already have some/all removed but just in case. Note, if > > you remove gdm.conf make sure you have mythfrontend/X starting another way. > > > rm /etc/init/avahi-daemon.conf > > rm /etc/init/gdm.conf > > rm /etc/init/ufw.conf > > rm /etc/init/apport.conf > > rm /etc/init/anacron.conf > > rm /etc/rcS.d/S13pcmciautils > > rm /etc/rcS.d/S37apparmor > > mv /etc/rc2.d/S20kerneloops /etc/rc2.d/K80kerneloops > > mv /etc/rc2.d/S25bluetooth /etc/rc2.d/K75bluetooth > > mv /etc/rc2.d/S50cups /etc/rc2.d/K50cups > > mv /etc/rc2.d/S50rsync /etc/rc2.d/K50rsync > > mv /etc/rc2.d/S50saned /etc/rc2.d/K50saned > > mv /etc/rc2.d/S70dns-clean /etc/rc2.d/K30dns-clean > > mv /etc/rc2.d/S70pppd-dns /etc/rc2.d/K30pppd-dns > > mv /etc/rc2.d/S99acpi-support /etc/rc2.d/K01acpi-support > > mv /etc/rc2.d/S99laptop-mode /etc/rc2.d/K01laptop-mode > > > rm /etc/init/tty2.conf /etc/init/tty3.conf /etc/init/tty4.conf > > /etc/init/tty5.conf /etc/init/tty6.conf > > /bin/sed -i -e > > 's/^ACTIVE_CONSOLES="\/dev\/tty\[1-6\]"/ACTIVE_CONSOLES="\/dev\/tty\[1\]"/' > > /etc/default/console-setup > > > Robert > > > On 5/6/2010 4:40 AM, Paul wrote: > > > > OK, I've installed Mythbuntu 10.04 on a VM and it was sailing pretty > > > close to the 256MB of RAM available. However, I removed > > > NetworkManager and a couple of other bits and pieces and it's now down > > > to this: > > > (with frontend running) 204MB used, plus 9MB swap used > > > (without myth frontend) 169MB used, plus 9MB swap used > > > > Process: > > > apt-get remove xscreensaver networkmanager wpagui wpasupplicant > > > modemmanager > > > > Then go to Applications - Settings - Session and Startup. I turned > > > off gnome services, policykit, updatenotifier, secret storage... > > > > I don't know how I'd get it down to 100MB, but I'm guessing this will > > > be good enough. I'll post back my results from the install on the atv. > > > > On May 5, 5:03 am, mrtisoy<daveh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I was running Mythbuntu 8.04 on my appleTV for a couple years and had > > >> to upgrade when I upgraded my server to 10.04. I just assumed that > > >> installing a fresh copy of Mythbuntu 10.04 would be the smart thing to > > >> do. Maybe I should have researched a little more. > > > >> The install went fairly smoothly, it is up and running and > > >> communicating with the server. Both HD and SD content plays well > > >> except a blip every 5 seconds or so. I figured it had to do with the > > >> gpu clocking. I can't seem to set the speed through the command line > > >> or in a script, but it does work using the nvidia-settings GUI, but > > >> even then the blips continue. > > > >> I have seen a lot of swapping, but I was hoping that was because I was > > >> running other programs as well (terminal, nvidia-settings) and > > >> normally I would only be running the front end. > > > >> Does anyone have suggestions on how to "slim" it down? Or should I > > >> just jump to 9.04 or 9.10? > > > >> Thanks! > > > >> -- > > >> To post to this group, send email to atv-bootloader@googlegroups.com > > >> For more options, visit this group > > >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en > > > -- > > To post to this group, send email to atv-bootloader@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en > > -- > To post to this group, send email to atv-bootloader@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en -- To post to this group, send email to atv-bootloader@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en
