So I found a bug of sorts. It is a problem with memory management or something in the new ui. It's as if mythfrontend is caching all the prescaled images everytime I escape from the main menu and hit "no I don't want to exit". The memory usage scales with resolution so I'm fairly confident that it's the prescaled images.
<br><br>The following pictures are of my system running at 1024x768 and also at 1920x1080. You can see that the 1024x768 shot shows about 150MB used per "almost exit", while the 1920x1080 shot shows about 400MB per "almost exit".
<br><a href="http://www.spartanframeworks.com/Spikey/MemoryUsage_1024x768.png">http://www.spartanframeworks.com/Spikey/MemoryUsage_1024x768.png</a><br>
<a href="http://www.spartanframeworks.com/Spikey/MemoryUsage_1920x1080.png">http://www.spartanframeworks.com/Spikey/MemoryUsage_1920x1080.png</a><br>
<br>On systems that don't have a very large screen ie. 800x600 the memory usage is less noticable. My system is running at 1920x1080 so it chews up a ton of memory in a hurry. After the first "almost exit" I've already used all physical memory. I had originally installed linux with no swap space (bad idea I realize now) because when mythfrontend ran out of physical ram the hard drives just chunked for about 5 minutes without letting me do anything on the screen and then finally the kernel killed the process giving an OOM error. To get around this I created a 2GB swap file, this allowed me to trouble shoot my problem.
<br><br>Anyway, I wanted to feed this info back to the devs and put it out there for other users who may have a similar problem.<br><br>My system is:<br>AMD 3200+ 939, MSI Neo2 Platinum motherboard, 1GB ram<br>Nvidia GeForce 5700 Ultra, using driver 8756 on custom kernel
<a href="http://2.6.16.2">2.6.16.2</a><br>Debian (standard issue 32bit), using SVN myth 9728 from a few days ago.<br><br>I was going to try the older version of the nvidia driver but quickly remembered that the older versions of the driver are not compatible with my current kernel version. If someone really wants this datapoint, ask and I will test it.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>-Greg<br><br><br><br>