[mythtv-users] `Mythbackend leaks memory` continued

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Ray Lischner wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 June 2008 11:12 pm, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> 
>> # cat /home/udo/psmyth.txt
>> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME
>> COMMAND
>> root      4203  7.2  9.1 393468 88688 ?        Ssl  16:34   4:27
>> root      4203  5.2 11.8 443152 115084 ?       Ssl  Jun23  39:17
>> root      4203  5.7 12.6 451428 122892 ?       Ssl  Jun23 126:25
>>
>> (I removed the command line for readability)
>>
>> One ps ran shortly after sytartup, next was the next morning and last
>> one was this morning.
> 
> An increase by 10% in virtual memory size is not significant. Keep
> running and observing. That may be the first indication of a leak, but
> it's too soon to tell.


I know, but to give you an impression of the early situation. Better to
compare to say next weeks results.

> How much RAM and swap are available on this system?

# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        970780     959808      10972          0       2288     782068
-/+ buffers/cache:     175452     795328
Swap:      3911788      34400    3877388