[mythtv-users] `Mythbackend leaks memory` continued

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Thu Jul 3 16:42:09 UTC 2008


Ray Lischner wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 July 2008 10:31 am, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> 
>> A steady growth from the second sample on.
>> Is the a leak?
>> Is this normal?
>> Can this be explained?
> 
> It looks like a leak to me. The problem, however, is that most Myth
> users do not experience a leak. Therefore, something about your system
> is different from ours. In particular, it is different from the systems
> that the developers use.
> 
> That's why the next step is to try to associate the leak with some other
> behavior of the backend, e.g., recording, playback, plug-ins, etc.
> 
> Also, what distribution are you using? What version of Qt? Mysql client?

Fedora 9
Qt 4.3.5
mysql 5.0.51a

>> Why did the backend crash in the qt lib?
>> (doesn't qt do somethign with the gui? No gui has been active for the
>> backend...)
> 
> I can't say why it crashed, but Qt is more than just a GUI library. It
> has basic utilities, threads, networking, and more.

Just now I see  there is a qt update.
Perhaps do a fresh build after this qt update?


Udo


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