[mythtv] Memory leaks in 0.20.2-0ubuntu10.1

[Neeraj Gupta]

hmmm.... bad luck.
I tried with TV tuner removed... just ran mythbackend and mythfronted
(networked) but still the backend lost 95% memory within minutes.
I was watching a recorded program (HD).
I stopped backend but still didnt get the memory back.

free -m shows same.. same info in top.
ps aux --sort=vsz shows some other programs which are taking up around 600MB
out of my 2GB physical RAM. After myth server-client run, free memory is
only 180MB :(

Any luck ?
Should I compile mythtv from source ? Any compile time options ?
I have the utuntu packages right now... just did apt-get install mythtv
mythtv-themes

Looking for suggestions..
-NG

On Feb 12, 2008 4:54 PM, Neeraj Gupta <ngupta44 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok thanks. Let me do some more work on my end.
> As mythtv is being used by a huge community and if there are not too many
> memory leak reports, then it could be my bad case.
> I think it could be the tuner device driver causing leaks.
> I will remove the hardware and then just run client-server using
> pre-recorded HD programs. This will isolate the problem on mythtv, if any.
> So, let me just run home now and watch the "Tonight Show by Jay Leno" for
> an hour :) :)
> Will post the results.
>
> By the way.. is there any valgrind type tool for device drivers ????
>
> -NG
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 2:54 AM, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 00:40:04 -0800, Neeraj Gupta wrote:
> > > I started using the mythtv recently and noticed severe memory leak
> > symptoms.
> > > The system is x86 Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy upto date on 2/10/2008. Mythtv
> > version
> > > is 0.20.2.
> > > I have 2GB RAM. When system boots up, I run several apps and close
> > them
> > > after some time (for testing) and memory usage is normal... even goes
> > down
> > > when I close all apps. Seen in top, saider, vmstat etc.
> > > But when I start using mythtvfrontend on a network client, the memory
> > > utilization starts going up and hits 95%. Even after stopping frontend
> > and
> > > backend, it never recovers. System swap usage also starts.
> >
> > To prove that MythTV is the culprit, you should
> >
> > 1. post the output of free -m before you start the fronted
> >
> > 2. post the output of free -m after you feel to hit the memory leak
> >
> > 3. post the output of ps aux when this happens
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tino
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