[mythtv-users] Mythbackend high cpu?

[Tom Lichti]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> With the right kind of memory leak, an ever-increasing amount of time
> can be spent in the malloc/free code due to heap fragmentation.

I did a complete clean and rebuild as recommended by Daniel in the
other thread, but I have not had a chance to really validate it yet,
but I haven't had any complaints from the family, so that's a good
sign. I will do a full validation tonight.

Tom