[mythtv-users] mythbackend still eats memory: the current status

Mon May 3 12:45:09 UTC 2010

On 2010-04-23 14:48, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Yes, both VSZ *and* RSS go down at least once. (!)
> It's only a few days of logging with 0.23-fixes but it shows us
> different phenomena.
> It's not giving reason for concern, just wanting to understand what's
> happening...

Some more numbers:

%CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
 5.1  2.2 1706748 87208 ?       Ssl  Apr17  41:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.2  2.2 1706748 86804 ?       Ssl  Apr17 116:20 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.3  2.5 1706748 95612 ?       Ssl  Apr17 198:05 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.4  2.6 1706748 102480 ?      Ssl  Apr17 278:57 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.4  2.8 1706748 106516 ?      Ssl  Apr17 358:35 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.4  2.6 1627816 100416 ?      Ssl  Apr17 438:03 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.5  3.1 1701580 120648 ?      Ssl  Apr17 519:19 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.4  3.3 1701580 127676 ?      Ssl  Apr17 597:52 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.4  3.3 1701580 127992 ?      Ssl  Apr17 675:59 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.5  3.4 1701580 131480 ?      Ssl  Apr17 758:18 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.5  3.6 1701580 140484 ?      Ssl  Apr17 836:01 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.4  3.7 1701580 141072 ?      Ssl  Apr17 912:28 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.5  4.1 1712952 158476 ?      Ssl  Apr17 993:58 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
 5.5  4.1 1712952 159348 ?      Ssl  Apr17 1075:46 /usr/bin/mythbackend
 5.5  4.2 1712952 163004 ?      Ssl  Apr17 1154:39 /usr/bin/mythbackend
 5.5  4.4 1737208 170064 ?      Ssl  Apr17 1232:01 /usr/bin/mythbackend

As you can see the VSZ stays fairly constant but there appears to be an
upward trend.
Same for RSS.

At least the change per day is at least one or maybe two orders of
magnitude smaller than a few months before, so we are in a much more
comfortable position right now.

Udo