[mythtv-users] `Mythbackend leaks memory` continued

[Nick Morrott]

On 24/07/2008, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/07/2008, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On 23/07/2008, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> >  > Can anybody confirm Nick's theory?
>  >  >  In combination with my way of recording that could explain the figures I
>  >  >  see here.
>  >
>  >
>  > To make my previous comment a little clearer, each recording adds a
>  >  chunk of RSS to the mythbackend process, which is released once the
>  >  recording finishes. I have noticed that the 'baseline' level of
>  >  mythbackend memory usage increased by a small amount a couple of days
>  >  ago, but has been fairly stable since then. I'll post an updated graph
>  >  tomorrow.
>
>
> Here's the updated graph - you can see the small increase in 'base'
>  memory usage (RSS and VSZ) but a quite different profile compared to
>  the week before when active EIT was enabled:
>
>  http://insidethex.co.uk/mythtv/mbe-mem-usage-active-eit-disabled.png

Here's another update with a few weeks' of data running with active
EIT disabled:

http://insidethex.co.uk/mythtv/mbe-mem-usage-active-eit-disabled.png

I'll hopefully look into more next week.

-- 
Nick Morrott

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