[mythtv-users] How do I find a mythbackend memory leak?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Oct 1 15:37:59 UTC 2009


On 10/01/2009 10:56 AM, jansenj wrote:
>> Generally to track down a memory leak you have to run valgrind and
>> then one of the devs or somebody who knows the code could use the data
>> from valgrind to find exactly where the leak is coming from.
> Maybe I'll just leave upnp disable until I move to 0.22 then.  Thanks for
> your help.
>   

Note that doing so will likely disable MythWeb preview images (and 
possibly more, but I can't really remember what).

> Is it normal for the upnp tables to be so big?
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 764063880 2009-10-01 10:43 upnpmedia.MYD
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 437995520 2009-10-01 10:49 upnpmedia.MYI

Yes--for users who have a ton of video files in MythVideo.

Mike


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