[mythtv] Re: Memory Leak with current CVS

[Kirby Vandivort]

Which would make this a good time to remind people that if they
are running CVS, they should be on the commit mail list so that
they know when things like this are fixed.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 12:56:59PM -0500, weaselgod wrote:
> Looks like someone found the leak.  Or at least has minimized it.  I 
> updated a little while ago and it is doing much better.
> 
> Eric
> 
> Jason Miller wrote:
> 
> >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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