[mythtv-users] Possible Memory Leak?

Ralf Haller ralf at brap.de
Tue Jun 17 23:18:21 EDT 2003


Using the vesa driver filled up my 512 MB of RAM in approx. 10-15 
minutes and the CPU  was running at 66%. Now with the SiS driver (I am 
using a SiS 650 chipset) the memory consumption stops at 256 MB and the 
CPU only runs at 25%.

Ralf

Ken Thompson wrote:

>In my configuration I was using an SIS 620 (I think it was 620) to
>start.  I later upgraded to the geforce 4 MX440 with the "nv" driver and
>it still did the same thing.  I don't think its video related.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Ralf Haller
>Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:01 AM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Possible Memory Leak?
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>Which graphic card driver do you use? I had the effect that mythfrontend
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>was filling up my memory when using the standard vesa driver (VGA). The 
>problem disappeared when I installed the driver for my graphic card
>(SiS).
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>I never had any memory problems with mythbackend, which is running on a 
>separate machine.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Ralf
>
>Timothy Vann wrote:
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>>I've just setup MythTv  for the first time and I seem to have a memory
>>leak.  I'm running with a PVR-250, 512MB of ram and 512MB swap. 
>>Basically, everything starts up fine and runs for a few hours, then my
>>system hangs tight because I'm out of memory.  I can watch the memory
>>used gradually grow and killing off mythbackend doesn't recover the
>>memory(hence why I think it's a leak).  If I don't start mythtv then
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>the
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>>box runs fine.  At this point I'm not sure if the leak is comming from
>>MythTv or from the ivtv driver.  Just thought I'd see if anyone had
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>seen
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>>this same problem or had any suggestions.
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>>Regards,
>>Tim Vann
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