[mythtv-users] `Mythbackend leaks memory` continued

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 22:28:12 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Tom Lichti wrote:
>>> Can anybody confirm Nick's theory?
>>>
>> I can't confirm it, but I am seeing a leak as well. No EIT, no multi-rec
>> here.
>
> Hmm.. Interesting!
>
>> mythbackend usage went from:
>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>> 21401 root       7 -15  234m  30m 8920 S    0  3.1   0:10.93 mythbackend
>>
>> to:
>>
>> 21401 root       7 -15  282m  62m  10m S    0  6.3  54:18.08 mythbackend
>
> Still quite a growth!
>
>> I will try valgrind at some point
>> and see if I can get anything useful.
>
> Please do.
>
>>> In combination with my way of recording that could explain the figures I
>>> see here.
>>>
>> Perhaps. Or it's the same problem just magnified by your environment.
>
> Hmmm... I do hope we can get some more valgrind logs so devs could find
> a pattern.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Udo

Perhaps the logging scripts should also be recording how many
recordings were under way at each measurement point. mythtv-status
might help with reporting this.


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