[mythtv-users] Severe Memory leak in 0.15.1?

[David Rees]

John Goerzen wrote, On 7/8/2004 6:29 AM:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:55:11PM -0700, David Rees wrote:
>>John Goerzen wrote, On 7/7/2004 8:19 PM:
>>
>>>3726 mythtv    16   0 28908 5692  27m S  0.0  2.5   0:00.01  22m kdeinit
>>>3731 mythtv    16   0 29484 6532  27m S  0.0  2.9   0:00.02  22m kdeinit
>>>3729 mythtv    16   0 29008 6096  27m S  0.0  2.7   0:00.02  22m kdeinit
>>
>>Apache is sucking up a very large amount of memory.  You've got 6 of 
>>them trying to run there, each of them has allocated (and touched) over 
>>130MB each.  Figure out why Apache is using so much memory, or add 
>>another 512MB of memory to the machine, and that should fix your problem.
> 
> I saw that, and I killed Apache, but I still was 150MB into swap, which
> is just not right on a machine like this.

That is still normal behavior.  After swapping out memory, Linux will 
not swap it back in unless it needs to.  I would consider 256MB a bare 
minimum for a combined frontend/backend machine, so I would expect some 
swapping.  Even on my machine with 512MB, I have about 30MB swap used.

> I discovered there were multiple mythfrontend processes.  I'm talking
> about 5 or 6 here.  I went to the MythTV screen, used Esc to exit
> completely out of one, and another one was there (I did *not* start
> two).  I exited out of that, and was back to a bare WM screen, and still
> had to kill off several more processes.  Doing so fixed the problem.  I
> have no idea where all these mythfrontend processes came from.

Looks like this has already been discussed...

-Dave