[mythtv-users] `Mythbackend leaks memory` continued

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Alex Butcher wrote:
>> Hmm...
>> More work needs to be done to tickets like
>> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5545.
> 
> A thought occurs to me; has anyone taken into account that MySQL clients'
> memory usage will vary? I seem to recall reading elsewhere that the MySQL
> client library has its own internal caching/garbage collection that can be
> mistaken for memory leaks by the naïve.

Then why would memory consumption keep growing in an almost straight
line on various systems?
Garbage collection would assume some process that frees up memory again.

This contradicts the observation of 'continuous' growth:

 6.8 10.7 433740 104748 ?       Ssl  Jul02  52:04
 7.8 13.7 461952 133204 ?       Ssl  Jul02 172:21
 8.0 14.6 471740 142304 ?       Ssl  Jul02 293:00
 7.8 15.4 479484 149972 ?       Ssl  Jul02 398:51
 7.8 16.2 486708 157340 ?       Ssl  Jul02 510:43
 7.8 17.3 497536 168352 ?       Ssl  Jul02 628:35
 7.9 20.8 533292 202428 ?       Ssl  Jul02 743:31
 7.9 22.0 544272 214168 ?       Ssl  Jul02 862:03
 7.9 23.1 555240 225012 ?       Ssl  Jul02 981:52
 8.0 24.4 567456 237172 ?       Ssl  Jul02 1098:28
 7.9 25.2 549876 244692 ?       Ssl  Jul02 1199:34
 7.8 26.2 584772 254916 ?       Ssl  Jul02 1307:43
 7.9 27.6 599624 268256 ?       Ssl  Jul02 1425:36
 7.9 28.9 612320 281444 ?       Ssl  Jul02 1542:08
 7.9 30.1 625856 292556 ?       Ssl  Jul02 1663:21
 7.9 31.4 638608 305080 ?       Ssl  Jul02 1787:34
 8.0 32.6 650628 316724 ?       Ssl  Jul02 1910:37
 8.0 33.5 659392 325960 ?       Ssl  Jul02 2019:36

Kind regards,
Udo