[mythtv-users] Memory usage

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 11 April 2003 12:31 am, Gerald Britton wrote:
> I had issues with mythbackend starting up a lot of threads (it starts one
> every time it transfers a file to the front end, network logos, etc.)
> These threads aren't garbage collected until the frontend closes.  Each of
> these threads was getting a stack of the same size as the rlimit stack size
> I had set (which was 256M for some old reason with my dotfiles).  Because
> of this, mythbackend would freeze up after about 7 threads.  Shrinking the
> stack size fixed it and mythbackend wouldn't immediately freeze.  However,
> those threads were still never garbage collected until the frontend closed.

Thanks for pointing that out, should be fixed in current CVS now.

Isaac