[mythtv-users] How do I find a mythbackend memory leak?

Johnny jarpublic at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 14:23:49 UTC 2009


> I recognize this, thats why I was sure to mention it right from the
> beginning.  Thats why I wasn't asking for anyone to solve the problem, just
> things to look into and places to look.
>
> but after writing it out made me think...upnp, can I disable it?  I did, and
> the backend seems to be using a correct amount of ram now and doesn't appear
> to be growing.  Long term I'd still like to fix this, but I don't use upnp
> on a regular basis right now, so any ideas what might be going on with a
> potential conflict or memory leak with upnp and possibly avahi? Any ideas on
> how to trace it down?

Generally to track down a memory leak you have to run valgrind and
then one of the devs or somebody who knows the code could use the data
from valgrind to find exactly where the leak is coming from.


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