[mythtv-users] 0.21-fixes memory consumption increase

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Tue May 13 10:22:12 UTC 2008


William wrote:
> Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>>
>> What can I do to fix the cause of a memory consumption increase?
>> (currently 27.9% for a backend on a 1GB system)
>> After startup it was lower. System has been up for 12 days now.
>> Tips are welcome.
> 
> Myth backend currently has a small memory leak in some setups and this 
> is probably the root of your issues too. 

Ah. Any specifics on what action causes the leak? I could then confirm.
Thanks for replying about this.

> My suggestion is to create a 
> small script to restart the backend once a week when the backend is idle.

OK, can do as a workaround.
There is a bug filed for this issue?
Any patches I could try?

Kind regards,
Udo

PS: 28.9% at the moment for the backend...


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