[mythtv-users] mythtranscode and nuvexport (memory usage and swapping)

[Steve Malenfant]

I'm able to successfully export 30 minutes shows from HD to xvid on my 
system. That takes about 5 hours. Anything bigger than that doesn't work. My 
system is swapping like crazy and the fps drops from 8 to < 1. I've search 
the archive and googled a bit but can't find the answer. 
 You can see that mythtranscode grew from 372m used to a 1303m in virtual 
memory. I have a gig of RAM in that machine and killed X so maybe the extra 
RAM will be used and not swapped. From what I can see, my hard drive swapped 
all night and I stopped my 1 encoding after 9 hours, which only 2% was done.
 Anybody can help here? Memory leak in mythtranscode?

top - 08:15:21 up 15:11, 4 users, load average: 2.32, 1.80, 1.64
Tasks: 68 total, 4 running, 64 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 50.3% sy, 4.3% ni, 0.0% id, 44.7% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 1035548k total, 1022504k used, 13044k free, 924k buffers
Swap: 690752k total, 546472k used, 144280k free, 14556k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
137 root 17 0 0 0 0 R 50.1 0.0 194:02.09 kswapd0
353 root 35 19 28308 12m 756 R 3.3 1.3 76:51.18 ffmpeg
348 root 34 19 1303m 737m 1820 S 1.7 72.9 32:26.34 mythtranscode
1278 root 16 0 1956 924 748 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.01 top
1 root 16 0 1704 264 240 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.01 init
 Thanks,
 Steve M.
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