[mythtv] Annoying bug

[Dwaine Garden]

Matthew Schulkind wrote:

> I noticed a slightly annoying bug yesterday. If the bttv drivers, or 
> whatever you happen to use for v4l, are not loaded, mythbackend goes 
> into a loop that just keeps allocating memory until 100% of your RAM 
> and swap space are full( this was a total of 1.5GB for ). I noticed 
> other people talking about a similar problem, but they just seemed to 
> be low on memory. I have not investigated this yet, but hopefully I 
> can come up with a patch within the next few days.
>
> -Matt
>
> _

I have seen it....  Something happen when the backend separates/bombs 
and the frontend is trying to access the backend server.


Dwaine.