[mythtv-users] Mythbackend high cpu?

[Joseph Fry]

>
> >> 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.
>

How is this memory leak causing high CPU usage.  I can see it swapping, but
swapping shouldn't impact the CPU, unless your swapping to software raid or
something silly like that.
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