Robert, the theme was mythcenter wide, which I don't think is that heavy. If there are more lightweight themes anyone can suggest I'd be happy to try them. To be fair, once it has swapped out about 200MB playback of recorded shows looks OK. Once you stop watching something much swapping ensues again. But without the gnome desktop I have lost sound and my bluetooth keyboard doesn't work any more. Fixable I'm sure, but I don't need the hassle.
I think I can run the default Mythbuntu 9.10 desktop with all the bells and whistles and XBMC will still play nice. That's my current plan of attack. Paul. On 17 May, 18:58, Robert Baptista <rob...@rbcardiff.net> wrote: > 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 > 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
