[mythtv-users] mythbackend crashes every 6-7 hours
Kevin Ross
kevin at familyross.net
Sun Oct 31 18:51:01 UTC 2010
On 10/31/2010 5:10 AM, Greg Oliver wrote:
>
> Like was said though, it is highly unlikely a software issue since
> nothing has changed. It does not have to be bad memory as you know
> for a hardware issue to cause this. After valgrind, I would suggest
> what others have - a stress test of sorts.. It really sounds like
> something is failing in the machine.
How would a hardware failure of some sort cause the mythbackend to keep
allocating more and more memory until it hits the hard limit (2GB) and
then start getting std::bad_alloc exceptions (which means out of
memory)? It sounds exactly like a memory leak, not bad memory sticks.
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