[mythtv-users] Backend crashes all the time

Michael D. O'Brien obrienmd at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 16:06:18 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Gareth Glaccum
> <gareth.glaccum at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  I was also seeing the same messages, for two different reasons. Mine
> appear
> >  to be a fault with the memory itself. Running mcelog immediately after
> a
> >  crash reports a fault on the memory. Symptoms for that fault are that
> they
> >  occurred mainly when the system was under load (hour long recording had
> >  stopped, and the system spawned mythtranscode and mythcommflag) whilst
> >  another recording started.
> >
>
> This is the same crash I get too regularly - /usr/bin/mythbackend:
> malloc(): memory corruption (fast)
>
> I have plenty of horses under the hood (4 Opteron cores and 4GB of
> RAM, so the system shouldn't be under that much load.
>

Count me in as well.  Is there a ticket for this?  This is with SVN 16338
for me.

Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz, 2GB DDR-800.
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