[mythtv] LIVE TV - Out of memory

[Paul Bender]

Goktug YILDIRIM wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is the exact post that was sent to user list but I decided that it 
> would be good idea to send here too since this might be something more 
> complicated.
> 
> I have a weird out of memory situation. I am working hard to solve but 
> no success yet.
> 
> I have minimyth 0.19-14 frontend which is a mythtv distro from 
> linpvr.org.  Hardware is a diskless EPIA M10000 and has 512MB RAM. 
> Mythtv version is release-0-19-fixes branch svn 10505.
> Backend is Slackware 10.2. Kernel is 2.6.17.7 and mythtv is 
> release-0-19-fixes branch svn 10505. I have a Technotrend Skystar2 DVBS.
> 
> When watching Live TV every channel change in frontend results 
> approximately 1MB of memory growth in mythfrontend process. Of course 
> after a time when there is no memory left, kernel kills the mythfrontend 
> process with an out of memory message. I have done a lot to understand 
> what might be my misconfiguration but could not figure it out!
> First of all I have tried different versions of minimyth which 
> corresponds to different svns of 0.19-fixes. All of them are the same. 
> Of course there is a thread in linpvr.org/forum but none has the problem 
> except me. Since my frontend seems to be correct and tested by various 
> people there must be something wrong with my backend. However I have no 
> understanding how backend could cause out of memory in frontend; 
> moreover backend seems to be OK.
> 
> I have some output logs both in frontend and backend but I am not at 
> home right now. I will try to post some of them and any other log if it 
> asked.
> 
> Any help or comment would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for your support,

Could you point me to the linpvr.org/forum post? I am not able to find, 
but I would like to respond there as well.

Using MiniMyth, I have been able to reproduce the problem using streams 
from my HD5000 but it does not happen with streams from my PVR-250 
cards. Therefore, I suspect that it is either the DVB code path or the 
AC3 code path. I am building a version of MiniMyth with optimizations 
for MythTV turned off and no custom CFLAGS in order to see whether or 
not it makes any difference.