On 11/06/07, Philip Stubbs <philip@???> wrote:
> Hi, I wonder if anybody can help?
>
> I have recently installed MythTV on my desktop machine that is
> running Ubuntu 7.04. The setup was a bit of a pain, but it seems to
> be working well now. The back-end seems to be working great and I
> have left it running for a couple of days to record some shows that
> I thought may be interesting.
>
> The problem I have is with the front-end running on the same machine.
> After it has been used for a little while, I will try and do
> something, like watch a different channel or recording, and the
> machine grinds to an almost halt, with the hard disk thrashing away.
>
> The machine becomes so slow that I can't even run a virtual terminal
> so that I con see what process may be causing the problem.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions as to what the problem may be? How
> can I determine which process is killing the system when the whole
> thing becomes so sluggish that it is unusable?
>
> Regards,
> --
> Philip Stubbs
> http://www.stuphi.co.uk
>
Sounds to me like you don't have enough RAM in the system.
Do "cat /proc/meminfo" to see how much of the swap space is being used.
Also, top sorted my memory use can be useful.
