[mythtv-users] `Mythbackend leaks memory` continued
Nick Morrott
knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sat Aug 9 10:37:51 UTC 2008
On 24/07/2008, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/07/2008, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 23/07/2008, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> > > Can anybody confirm Nick's theory?
> > > In combination with my way of recording that could explain the figures I
> > > see here.
> >
> >
> > To make my previous comment a little clearer, each recording adds a
> > chunk of RSS to the mythbackend process, which is released once the
> > recording finishes. I have noticed that the 'baseline' level of
> > mythbackend memory usage increased by a small amount a couple of days
> > ago, but has been fairly stable since then. I'll post an updated graph
> > tomorrow.
>
>
> Here's the updated graph - you can see the small increase in 'base'
> memory usage (RSS and VSZ) but a quite different profile compared to
> the week before when active EIT was enabled:
>
> http://insidethex.co.uk/mythtv/mbe-mem-usage-active-eit-disabled.png
Here's another update with a few weeks' of data running with active
EIT disabled:
http://insidethex.co.uk/mythtv/mbe-mem-usage-active-eit-disabled.png
I'll hopefully look into more next week.
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