[mythtv-users] Severe Memory leak in 0.15.1?

[John Goerzen]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:55:11PM -0700, David Rees wrote:
> John Goerzen wrote, On 7/7/2004 8:19 PM:
> > 3726 mythtv    16   0 28908 5692  27m S  0.0  2.5   0:00.01  22m kdeinit
> > 3731 mythtv    16   0 29484 6532  27m S  0.0  2.9   0:00.02  22m kdeinit
> > 3729 mythtv    16   0 29008 6096  27m S  0.0  2.7   0:00.02  22m kdeinit
> 
> Apache is sucking up a very large amount of memory.  You've got 6 of 
> them trying to run there, each of them has allocated (and touched) over 
> 130MB each.  Figure out why Apache is using so much memory, or add 
> another 512MB of memory to the machine, and that should fix your problem.

I saw that, and I killed Apache, but I still was 150MB into swap, which
is just not right on a machine like this.

> The memory usage of mythbackend and frontend look normal to me.

I discovered there were multiple mythfrontend processes.  I'm talking
about 5 or 6 here.  I went to the MythTV screen, used Esc to exit
completely out of one, and another one was there (I did *not* start
two).  I exited out of that, and was back to a bare WM screen, and still
had to kill off several more processes.  Doing so fixed the problem.  I
have no idea where all these mythfrontend processes came from.

-- John