On 3/26/06, Corrin Lakeland <lakeland@go.org.nz> wrote: > 512MB is s'posed to be ideal - plenty for buffering with none completely > wasted. > > Sounds like a memory leaking bug to me, maybe in mythtv I haven't seen anything on the main lists about memory leak issues with MythTV and I haven't seen anything like that myself (0.19 on Gentoo). I'd be inclined to look elsewhere first. Steve