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Originally Posted by mike_gain
Paging (or more likely in this case increased swapping to and from the disk) is just a symptom not the cause.
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No, slowness is the symptom
. Paging/swapping is the cause. (I know the terms are used interchangeably, but I was taught that swapping is copying whole processes/programs and paging is copying fixed-size pages). Anyway...
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Originally Posted by mike_gain
So are you saying that the new apps are running in memory and therefore reducing the amount of physical memory available to the normal TiVO process or have these apps taken up too much space on the disk reducing the available swap space?
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Neither. The apps themselves aren't permanently held in memory, but the software needed to support them, such as codecs and interpreters, is. This is what has grown over time. But as the apps develop, some support software may become redundant and can be removed.