[mythtv] Memory Leak with current CVS

Jason Miller jasonmiller at micron.com
Fri Nov 14 18:34:04 EST 2003


I haven't seen much this afternoon on the memory leak people are seeing with
the current CVS.  Right now it has me pretty much dead in the water.  I've
been trying with little to no success to help pin it down.  Is this something
everyone sees or are there systems running current CVS that don't have memory
problems?

What I do know for what it's worth:

- Gentoo System
- 2.4.20 Kernel
- qt 3.2.2
- PVR 250 with Latest ivtv CVS

Valgrind run on the backend doesn't find anything significant.
Unfortunately, Valgrind doesn't support SSE instructions so the frontend
kills it.

Watching live tv does NOT leak but watching a previously recorded show does.

The leak will burn through a gig of ram within about 15 minutes.

Shared memory usage does NOT go up as the leak progresses.

That would be the extent of what I can think of to try.  Any pointers as to
what to try next to help pin it down would be greatly appreciated.


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