[mythtv-users] BE (0.25) memory leak?
Gavin Whitehead
gavin at alabastercranium.demon.co.uk
Fri Jul 6 21:02:45 UTC 2012
On 04/07/2012 19:50, Gavin Whitehead wrote:
> On 03/07/2012 23:05, Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Gavin Whitehead
>> <gavin at alabastercranium.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>> VIRT 880m
>>> RES 81m
>>> VIRT 942m
>>> RES 74m
>>> VIRT 951m
>>> RES 83m
>>> So that consumed ~340MB in 15 minutes.
>> How so? your VIRT and RES numbers are saying there is no significant
>> growth in mythbackend at all.
>>
>> Using "free memory" from free is not a good way to judge memory leaks
>> in a program. This memory includes the buffer caches and other stuff
>> used by the kernel, which is almost assuredly where the memory usage
>> is. As for actual memory used by mythbackend, you have shown nothing
>> that indicates that at all. The Linux memory management system is
>> complex and confusing for most users.
>>
>>> If I now stop and restart the BE I don't the memory back. After the BE
>>> process has been stopped the free memory reported by top stays about
>>> the
>>> same.
>> Of course it is. The kernel is keeping the memory for its buffers
>> and caching.
>>
>> I don't see a problem here.
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> I starter 'worrying' about the memory because after recording stuff
> the GUI applications (FE, Firefox, XBMC) seemed sluggish. And after a
> reboot they seemed 'nippy'. Also, the only time I've ever noticed my
> system use swap space is after 'free memory' had dropped to almost
> zero (during/after recording).
> I'll play some more and try and convince myself that I am imaging the
> sluggishness.
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Gav
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OK. There is definitely something wrong.
Tonight we have recorded about 3 hours of TV and after that...
- Top is currently showing 124Mb free (on a 6 GB system).
- Mythtv web is still drawing the 'listings' screen some 10 minutes
after I clicked 'listings'.
- And the FE is still attempting to to draw the 'Watch Recordings'
screen (only 60 recordings) some 8 minutes after I selected it.
The FE log keeps saying
Jul 6 21:58:05 XXXX mythfrontend[6742]: C PlaybackBoxHelper
mythcorecontext.cpp:1154 (CheckProtoVersion) Protocol version check
failure.#012#011#011#011The response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION was
empty.#012#011#011#011This happens when the backend is too busy to
respond,#012#011#011#011or has deadlocked in due to bugs or hardware failure
The BE log doesn't seem to be saying anything exceptional - just the
usual HouseKeeping and autoexpire messages.
None of the other log files in /var/log/mythtv have been updated recently.
Any suggestions as to where I should look for the problem?
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