[mythtv-users] Mythbackend high cpu?

Tom Lichti tom at redpepperracing.com
Wed Jun 20 19:17:24 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Gavin Hurlbut <gjhurlbu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was seeing ~1GB lost per hour, I think that's fairly substantial. I
>> did a quick build last night and it has definitely helped, tonight I
>> hope to do a full clean and rebuild as per Daniel's earlier note just
>> to make sure I'm on a clean slate.
>
> I doubt it very much.  I think you were seeing 1GB/hr *growth*.
> Memory usage != memory leakage.  Your actual memory leakage is quite
> small, although still much larger than I'd prefer.
>
> We are actively looking into it as I think we are all getting hit by
> it to some extent.

Ah, yes, that is correct. Although the growth was still quite a bit
larger than I would expect, after a normal evening of viewing the RAM
(all 8GB) was completely exhausted on my server. As I said, once I've
done a full clean and rebuild I'll be better able to gauge the current
status.

Thanks
Tom


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