[mythtv] Re: Memory Leak with current CVS

Jason Miller jasonmiller at micron.com
Sat Nov 15 00:10:45 EST 2003


On 14/11/03 17:08 -0700, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> On November 14, 2003 04:58 pm, Jason Miller wrote:
> > > On November 14, 2003 04:45 pm, J Donavan Stanley wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 18:34, Jason Miller wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone looked at diffs of the source tree over the past 48 hours or
> > > > so? Might be as easy to find as getting a diff and greping for
> > > > new/malloc delete/free. More likely though there's a conditional added
> > > > that causes an existing delete/free to be bypassed but it's worth a
> > > > shot.
> > >
> > > On 14/11/03 16:47 -0700, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> > > I updated CVS to one 4 days ago and leak still there. Must be further
> > > than that. Although I do get a leak on live TV.
> >
> > I saw the same, and I also see the leak on live tv btw, don't know what I
> > was seeing before.  Can't easily roll back past where the schema changed to
> > see exactly where it happened.
> 
> Sorry, mixed up my directories. CVS from 4 days ago does NOT have the leak 
> (front or back). Something happened between then and now.

Retried CVS from 4 days ago and I definitely have the problem.  Another BIG
clue.  Mplayer playing myth .nuv files leaks like a sieve too if I use the
-fs option.  Works great in a window.  Could someone else confirm that?  I'm
starting to think this is going to be painful :)


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