[mythtv-users] MythFrontend out of memory problem

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Kenneth,

Monday, April 11, 2022, 12:03:35 AM, you wrote:

> Looking for a little help from the group: 
> I'm running v31 fixes on Xubuntu v20.04 and have recently and only
> occasionally have the kernel kill mythfrontend.re for the reason of
> "Out of memory".  It has happened 3 times in the last 4 weeks and a
> total of 6 times since 2020.  It's not a show-stopper, as it does
> recover after about 5-10 minutes (I assume that's the amount of time
> it's using chewing up all the RAM).   There isn't anything of
> interest in the mythfrontend.log file.  Just normal stuff while
> watching a recording.  This is a snippet from kern.log specifically about mythfrontend:


> Apr  9 22:00:03 MythTV kernel: [703811.529409] [  pid  ]   uid 
> tgid total_vm      rss pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name

> Apr  9 22:00:03 MythTV kernel: [703811.529507] [   3635]  1000 
> 3635    97165     1257   204800      987             0 xfce4-terminal
> Apr  9 22:00:03 MythTV kernel: [703811.529508] [   3640]  1000 
> 3640     2751      196    61440      248             0 bash
> Apr  9 22:00:03 MythTV kernel: [703811.529510] [   3753]  1000 
> 3753      652        1    45056       30             0 mythfrontend
> Apr  9 22:00:03 MythTV kernel: [703811.529511] [   3762]  1000 
> 3762  3609880  1093884 12263424   307492             0 mythfrontend.re
> Apr  9 22:00:03 MythTV kernel: [703811.529512] [   5513]   107 
> 5513     2648       37    53248        5             0 uuidd
> Apr  9 22:00:03 MythTV kernel: [703811.529513] [   8712]   127 
> 8712      652        0    40960       23             0 sh
> Apr  9 22:00:03 MythTV kernel: [703811.529514] [   8713]   127 
> 8713   768613   462526  4624384    46665             0 mythcommflag


> Has anyone else seen this anomaly?


> Regards,


> Ken Emerson

What other processes are running when it happens? Any memory hungry
programs or badly written ones that could gobble up your memory?
How much memory and swap do you have to start with?
What is the hardware?
etc, etc!

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