[mythtv-users] mythbackend crashes every 6-7 hours

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Mon Nov 1 18:46:42 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Rob Verduijn <rob.verduijn at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello again
>
> ok after 4 hours the results are slightly different
>
> the definitely lost is still the same
> the possibly lost sections is a bit larger this time
>
> For those that wish to see the log (>2Mb) post a request and I will mail it
> to your private email.

Just post it to pastebin.com or somewhere similar and post the link here.

> leak summary
> ==23546== LEAK SUMMARY:
> ==23546==    definitely lost: 4,536 bytes in 5 blocks
> ==23546==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
> ==23546==      possibly lost: 1,098,356,449 bytes in 3,120,225 blocks
> ==23546==    still reachable: 16,582,584 bytes in 151,644 blocks
> ==23546==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
> ==23546== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not
> shown.
> ==23546== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes
> ==23546==
> ==23546== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
> ==23546== ERROR SUMMARY: 1385 errors from 1385 contexts (suppressed: 3 from
> 3)
>
> For those that wish to see the log (>2Mb) post a request and I will mail it
> to your private email
>
>
>
> 2010/11/1 Rob Verduijn <rob.verduijn at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi I'm running it for a prolonged test and will turn on the telly while
>> I'm at it.
>>
>> I already tried a 5 hour test but mythbackend crashed before I could kill
>> it.
>> Now going for the 4 hour test (the previous one lasted about 4 and a half
>> hour)
>>
>> I will keep you posted.
>>
>> Rob Verduijn
>>
>>
>> 2010/11/1 Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 01:21 -0700, Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
>>> >
>>> > It is NOT leaking any significant memory.
>>>
>>> Dude, he only ran it for 5 minutes.  If you know anything about
>>> debugging memory leaks you would know that running for a mere 5 minutes
>>> tells you nothing.
>>>
>>> > You have now sufficiently
>>> > proven it beyond the shadow of a doubt.
>>>
>>> I'd hardly go that far with results for a 5 minute test.
>>>
>>> Why are you so resistive to the idea that there might be a memory leak
>>> in mythttv?  What do you have invested that will go afoul if one is
>>> found?
>>>
>>> Are you just so much of a cheerleader that it will crush you to discover
>>> that there might be a bug somewhere?  Keep an open mind.
>>>
>>> > It is telling you that 4.5kB
>>> > of memory are "definitely lost" and 209kB of memory are "possibly
>>> > lost".
>>>
>>> In just 5 minutes of running!  And given that it was only 5 minutes it
>>> was probably 5 minutes of only doing nothing significant.
>>>
>>> b.
>>>
>>>
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