[mythtv-users] mythbackend crashes every 6-7 hours

Rob Verduijn rob.verduijn at gmail.com
Sat Oct 30 17:56:05 UTC 2010


Yup,

Memory usage for the mythbackend process is at 2Gb and rising.
A memory leak obvious, anybody who knows how to deal with it or where
to start looking ?

I am currently working arround it with a cronjob that restarts
mythbackend every 5 hours.
This is far from an acceptable solution.

Rob Verduijn

2010/10/30 Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>:
> On 10/30/2010 04:34, Rob Verduijn wrote:
>>
>> My mythtv backend crashes every 6 to 7 hours (sorry can't be more
>> specific)
>> The logs give me :
>> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>>   what():  std::bad_alloc
>
> Sounds like you're running out of memory.  Check 'top' after a couple hours
> and see how much stuff is using.  The 'res' column is the one you should be
> concerned with.
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list