[mythtv-users] `Mythbackend leaks memory` continued

[Nick Morrott]

2008/7/13 Andrew Williams <andy at tensixtyone.com>:
> 2008/7/12 Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>:
>
> <snip>
>
>> There is an obvious trend in the data (after 2 months of uptime ended
>> in June I was using ~ 1.5GiB of VSZ). My system uses 3 DVB-T and 1
>> PVR-150 cards. A handful of recordings each day (maybe 4 on average),
>> and multirec is /not/ enabled. EIT is enabled for a half-dozen radio
>> channels. System is an AMD Athlon64 3000+ with 1GiB RAM. Running
>> Valgrind for several hours last week did not reveal anything at that
>> time.
>
> After running the burn test on one Mplex, I show no major increase in
> memory usage, but, my graph is on a similar sorta trend as yours, I've
> only had one day but its a similar percentage:
>
> http://mythtv.nikdoof.net/graphs/graphs/graph_45_2.png (sorry about
> the log graphing)
>
> Just curious, what distro, kernel and gcc version are you using?

This is on an old 24/7/365 backend that has not been updated for 'a
while :)' due to its almost rock-solid stability:

FC4, 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 kernel and gcc version 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8).

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