[mythtv-users] Re:mythfrontend leaking memory like crazy

[Curtis Stanford]

Agreed. I've seen all of these problems as well.

On November 13, 2003 06:28 pm, Vinton Coffman wrote:
> cvs from the last couple of days has forced me back to using two vcr's
> as backups.  I hadn't updated for three weeks because I didn't see any
> changes that I felt I "had to have now".  Now mythtv is completely
> unusable on my system.  I update the ivtv driver at the same time so
> now I get the occasional 0 MB recording!  8(  Up until this update it
> was completely reliable 99% of the time.
>
> I think the ivtv developer is working on the buffer issue but I haven't
> seen any changes commited yet.
>
> Back to Mythtv.  Besides the above problems, mythtv segfaults when I
> try to scroll in the watch recordings menu.  This usually doesn't
> happen with the first recording in the list.  It crashes on the second
> one then on the first one every time I restart the frontend.  I can't
> seem to watch live tv after this either.  I don't see any messages in
> /var/log/messages, backend log, or frontendlog.
>
> The log messages below are from this morning.  Both the front and back
> ends were running.  The backend was dead when I got home tonight
> though.  I've haven't had the  backend die since I started using
> mythtv.
>
> Nov 13 08:00:03 localhost kernel: ivtv: DMA buffer DeQueue failed! got
> 1, want 1
> Nov 13 08:00:03 localhost kernel: ivtv: DEC: free_q: 0 elements
> Nov 13 08:00:03 localhost kernel: ivtv: DEC: dma_q: 0 elements
> Nov 13 08:00:03 localhost kernel: ivtv: DEC: full_q: 99 elements
> Nov 13 08:00:04 localhost kernel: ivtv: EOS interrupt not received!
> stopping anyway.
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1226
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1355
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1356
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1358
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1360
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1361
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1362
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1364
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1365
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1366
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1367
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1368
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 3156
> (mythbackend).
> Nov 13 08:16:21 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 3158
> (mythbackend).
>
>
> My system:
> Shuttle MN31N nForce2
> Barton XP 2500
> 256 MB x 2 PC2700
> 2 x 120 GB Seagate 7200.7 drives running LVM
> RedHat 9 updated using apt-get
> 2 x PVR-250
> ALSA but can't seem to enable native ALSA in myth using /dev/dsp
>
> I guess I'll try to get a backtrace after primetime.
>
> Thanks,
> Vinton
>
>
>
> Vinton Coffman
> Mobot Robotics, LLC.
> 484 West 7th Avenue
> West Homestead, PA 15120
> Phone (412) 476-8980 ext 226
> Cell (412) 877-9869
> Fax (412) 476-8981