[mythtv-users] mythbackend still eats memory: the current status

[Gavin Hurlbut]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Small update:
> I updated the box to 0.24, svn 27240.
> Has been running for a short while:
>
> %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
>  5.9  1.8 1734384 69172 ?       SNsl Dec04  63:07 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
>  5.9  1.9 1734384 72456 ?       SNsl Dec04 150:04 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
>  6.0  2.1 1734520 79948 ?       SNsl Dec04 240:24 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
>  6.1  2.2 1734920 83672 ?       SNsl Dec04 329:25 /usr/bin/mythbackend -
>
> The trend looks the same.

Yes, it does.  No significant change to the memory usage.  Please stop
looking at the RSS column.  It is completely irrelevant.  During the
time that that was running, you picked up like 540kB of memory usage
total from the first reading.

> valgrind --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes --log-file=valgrind.log
> mythbackend --daemon --user mythtv --logfile
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile /var/run/mythbackend.pid

Yes, that looks right.