[mythtv-users] Possible Memory Leak?

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 17 June 2003 09:46 am, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Just to be clear ... these two reports do indicate that some sort of
> problem is present. But without more detail, identifying that problem as a
> memory leak seems to me premature. Isaac likes backtraces, but if the
> system really "hangs tight", they may be tough to come by. One useful thing
> to do in such cases is to run "top" in an ssh session, so when the system
> hangs, you still have a readable display of the last state "top" reported
> and can see (for example) --

The most likely thing is a kernel bug that occurs when the in-kernel disk 
write buffers are full, which would be entirely consistant with both of their 
bug reports.

Isaac