[mythtv-users] FC2 memory leak?

Wayne Steenburg w.steenburg at myactv.net
Thu Sep 2 22:45:34 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 20:37, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> 
> >     OK... this probably only applies to me, but I've noticed my office 
> > machine running FC2 (weirdo SMP athon 2400, dual-headed (Radeon8500, 
> > NV), vanilla compiled 2.6.[678]) ECC beast) will run for about 1 week 
> > before consuming all of its memory.  It's got 1 GB of real and 1GB of 
> > swap, and eats roughly 100 MB per day, unaccounted for in top.
> > 
> >     Does anyone who's successfully run FC2 on their mythbox experience 
> > this?
> 
> Nope. Both my Myth systems are running FC2 now. Not stock FC2 kernels 
> either (one from ATrpms, one of my own building). Does your machine 
> experience the same leakage if you use an FC2-released kernel?

I do remember some issues during testing concerning the smp kernels.  I
wonder if you've hit one of those snags.  Check the fedora-test-list
archives for details.

Wayne Steenburg



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