[mythtv-users] Mythbackend recording glitches

[Allen Edwards]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 7:54 PM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:40:48 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
> >9) There is still swap used as time goes on which I don't understand.
> >Right now I am recording and doing a mythcomfilter and the swap is empty.
> >Tomorrow the swap will be in use and files will be swapping in and out. It
> >is like a swaping leak.
>
> I have noticed just in the last few days that the swap usage on my
> main MythTV system has completely disappeared, and on my mother's
> system has reduced a great deal.  So I am wondering if a bug that was
> causing it has just been fixed.  So if you are using the MythTV
> version from the main Ubuntu repositories, I would recommend adding
> the MythTV PPA and updating to the latest "fixes" version from there:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu
>
> This is my current version (mythutil --version):
>
> MythTV Version : v29.1-41-gd8a2db7
> MythTV Branch : fixes/29
> Network Protocol : 91
> Library API : 29.20180316-1
> QT Version : 5.9.5
> Options compiled in:
>  linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_pulse
> using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl
> using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb
> using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_vbox using_ceton
> using_hdpvr using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_libcec
> using_libcrypto using_libdns_sd using_libfftw3 using_libxml2
> using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl using_opengl_video
> using_opengl_themepainter using_qtwebkit using_qtscript using_qtdbus
> using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv
> using_profiletype using_systemd_notify using_systemd_journal
> using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_bindings_php
> using_freetype2 using_mythtranscode using_opengl using_vaapi
> using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass using_libxml2
> using_libmp3lame
>
> Also recently, there has been a significant speedup in the scheduler
> that is well worth having.
>
>
Stephen said: "So if you are using the MythTV version from the main Ubuntu
repositories"

I am using Mythbuntu 16. Am I using that version?

dad at NewMyth:~$ mythutil --version
MythTV Version : v0.28-2-g15cf421
MythTV Branch : fixes/0.28
Network Protocol : 88
Library API : 0.28.20160309-1
QT Version : 5.5.1
Options compiled in:
 linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_pulse
using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb using_firewire using_frontend
using_hdhomerun using_vbox using_ceton using_hdpvr using_ivtv
using_joystick_menu using_libcec using_libcrypto using_libdns_sd
using_libfftw3 using_libxml2 using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl
using_opengl_video using_qtwebkit using_qtscript using_qtdbus using_sdl
using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_profiletype
using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_bindings_php
using_freetype2 using_mythtranscode using_opengl using_vaapi using_vdpau
using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass using_libxml2

What exactly should I do?  It increasingly looks like some kind of memory
leak.  The swap usage is just increasing with time. It is 130k and was 0
this afternoon.

Allen
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