[mythtv-users] Are there Memory leaks in 0.28 Mythfrontend?

[Anthony Giggins]

On 19 April 2017 at 06:10, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Anthony Giggins <
> seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing more and more that memory is creeping up on the frontend
>> process, is this a known issue?
>>
>> I'm seeing this on 3 different frontends, the first one is a combined
>> front end
>>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+
>> COMMAND
>>  4766 seven     20   0 7347912 1.440g  77840 S   1.3 14.8 453:09.80
>> mythfrontend.re
>>
>> $ mythfrontend --version
>> xprop:  unable to open display ''
>> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
>> MythTV Version : v0.28.1-19-g0037461
>> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.28
>> Network Protocol : 88
>> Library API : 0.28.20161120-1
>> QT Version : 5.2.1
>> Options compiled in:
>>  linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_pulse
>> using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
>> using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb using_firewire using_frontend
>> using_hdhomerun using_vbox using_ceton using_hdpvr using_ivtv
>> using_joystick_menu using_libcec using_libcrypto using_libdns_sd
>> using_libfftw3 using_libxml2 using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl
>> using_opengl_video using_opengl_themepainter using_qtwebkit using_qtscript
>> using_qtdbus using_sdl using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr
>> using_xv using_profiletype using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
>> using_bindings_php using_freetype2 using_mythtranscode using_opengl
>> using_vaapi using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass
>> using_libxml2
>>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+
>> COMMAND
>>  5163 seven     20   0 8116840 2.396g  77392 S   2.6 62.1 851:26.40
>> mythfrontend.re
>>
>> $ mythfrontend --version
>> xprop:  unable to open display ''
>> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
>> MythTV Version : v0.28.1-18-g7026623
>> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.28
>> Network Protocol : 88
>> Library API : 0.28.20161120-1
>> QT Version : 5.5.1
>> Options compiled in:
>>  linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_pulse
>> using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
>> using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb using_firewire using_frontend
>> using_hdhomerun using_vbox using_ceton using_hdpvr using_ivtv
>> using_joystick_menu using_libcec using_libcrypto using_libdns_sd
>> using_libfftw3 using_libxml2 using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl
>> using_opengl_video using_opengl_themepainter using_qtwebkit using_qtscript
>> using_qtdbus using_sdl using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr
>> using_xv using_profiletype using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
>> using_bindings_php using_freetype2 using_mythtranscode using_opengl
>> using_vaapi using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass
>> using_libxml2
>>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+
>> COMMAND
>> 13671 seven     20   0 5507908 962424 105772 S   0.7 47.0 389:35.67
>> mythfrontend.re
>>
>> $ mythfrontend --version
>> xprop:  unable to open display ''
>> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
>> MythTV Version : v0.28.1-8-ge9be5e0
>> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.28
>> Network Protocol : 88
>> Library API : 0.28.20161120-1
>> QT Version : 5.5.1
>> Options compiled in:
>>  linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_pulse
>> using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
>> using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb using_firewire using_frontend
>> using_hdhomerun using_vbox using_ceton using_hdpvr using_ivtv
>> using_joystick_menu using_libcec using_libcrypto using_libdns_sd
>> using_libfftw3 using_libxml2 using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl
>> using_opengl_video using_opengl_themepainter using_qtwebkit using_qtscript
>> using_qtdbus using_sdl using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr
>> using_xv using_profiletype using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
>> using_bindings_php using_freetype2 using_mythtranscode using_opengl
>> using_vaapi using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass
>> using_libxml2
>>
>> what troubleshooting do I need to provide to raise a bug? from previous
>> threads I think this required valgrind? but can someone confirm?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>>
> I posted a message Saturday with the same issues, but I guess it was over
> the max size and the moderator did not approve it.  I have the same issue
> since I upgraded to:
>
> MythTV Version : v28.0-104-g3930f5d
> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.28
> Network Protocol : 88
> Library API : 0.28.20161120-1
> QT Version : 5.7.1
>
> 10 days in, my machine OOM'ed mythfronend - it was hogging 10GB ram when
> it happened.  The previous 0.28 version (I do not have the specifics of
> version) did not have this issue.  It ran for over a month with no issues -
> well, at least it did not OOM.
>
>
Yeah similarly my systems have only been up

12 days

20 days

& 45 days in order of the versions above, however the combined
frontend/backup would see a lot more usage then the others.

Cheers,

Anthony
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