[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2438: Infinite loop in mythbackend

[Steven Adeff]

On 10/2/06, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> Steven Adeff writes:
> > On 10/2/06, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
> >> * On Mon Oct 02, 2006 at 06:04:48PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> >> > On 9/29/06, MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote:
> >> > > #2438: Infinite loop in mythbackend
> >>
> >> > I'm seeing this in 0-20-fixes rev 11349. (fresh download and compile).
> >> > Don't know how to do the profiling thing, can someone show me what I
> >> > need to do to figure out why my backend starts using 99%+?
> >>
> >> Can you get a backtrace as described in the HOWTO so we can see if it is
> >> the same issue as discovered in #2438.  We shouldn't be calling anything
> >> like VideoOutput::GetVisibleOSDBounds() or VideoOutput::GetOSDBounds()
> >> anymore from the backend in either trunk or -fixes.
> >
> > sure, though I'm not quite sure how to get a backtrace if mythbackend
> > doesn't crash?
>
> gdb /path/to/mythbackend PID
>
> This will attach gdb to the running mythbackend process PID.

cool, when it asks to "restart" should I answer yes or no?
once i notice mythbackend doing this I'll create the backtrace. seems
to happen at least once a day

-- 
Steve
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