[mythtv-users] Backend crashes all the time

[Phil Bridges]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Gareth Glaccum
<gareth.glaccum at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I was also seeing the same messages, for two different reasons. Mine appear
>  to be a fault with the memory itself. Running mcelog immediately after a
>  crash reports a fault on the memory. Symptoms for that fault are that they
>  occurred mainly when the system was under load (hour long recording had
>  stopped, and the system spawned mythtranscode and mythcommflag) whilst
>  another recording started.
>

This is the same crash I get too regularly - /usr/bin/mythbackend:
malloc(): memory corruption (fast)

I have plenty of horses under the hood (4 Opteron cores and 4GB of
RAM, so the system shouldn't be under that much load.