[mythtv-users] Severe Memory leak in 0.15.1?

[John Goerzen]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:52:54AM -0700, David Rees wrote:
> John Goerzen wrote, On 7/8/2004 6:29 AM:
> >On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:55:11PM -0700, David Rees wrote:
> >>John Goerzen wrote, On 7/7/2004 8:19 PM:
> >>
> >I saw that, and I killed Apache, but I still was 150MB into swap, which
> >is just not right on a machine like this.
> 
> That is still normal behavior.  After swapping out memory, Linux will 
> not swap it back in unless it needs to.  I would consider 256MB a bare 
> minimum for a combined frontend/backend machine, so I would expect some 
> swapping.  Even on my machine with 512MB, I have about 30MB swap used.

I understand that, but it's not what was going on here.  I couldn't
even swapoff that swap partition because there was too much there.
(Until, of course, killing the extra processes.)

> >I discovered there were multiple mythfrontend processes.  I'm talking
> >about 5 or 6 here.  I went to the MythTV screen, used Esc to exit
> >completely out of one, and another one was there (I did *not* start
> >two).  I exited out of that, and was back to a bare WM screen, and still
> >had to kill off several more processes.  Doing so fixed the problem.  I
> >have no idea where all these mythfrontend processes came from.
> 
> Looks like this has already been discussed...

Yup.  I haven't seen it recur, but I'll try to keep an eye out to see
what's going on if it does.

-- John