[mythtv-users] Help Tracking down a memory leak issue with MythTV SVN

[Roo]

On 02/01/2008, Erik Sejr <esejr at wildroseinternet.ca> wrote:
> I have been running the SVN version of myth for sometime and I am currently
> running build 15275. About a month ago my frontend kept on locking up once
> per day, I noticed that mythfrontend was using an increasing amount of
> system memory as time passed. Starting from about 15% after it was run and
> creeping up to about 75% of the total system memory after about 8 hours of
> running.

I have run pmap on the frontend process and noticed that one of the
entries in particular seems high. I don't think there is enough
information to use from the pmap output but have posted an excerpt
anyway. This is with r15394.

00002aaab60f3000       4       -       -       - rw---  libqimsw-multi.so
00002aaab60f4000      20       -       -       - r-x--  libqimsw-none.so
00002aaab60f9000    2044       -       -       - -----  libqimsw-none.so
00002aaab62f8000       4       -       -       - rw---  libqimsw-none.so
00002aaab62f9000     156       -       -       - r-x--  libqsimple.so
00002aaab6320000    2044       -       -       - -----  libqsimple.so
00002aaab651f000       4       -       -       - rw---  libqsimple.so
00002aaab6520000      56       -       -       - r-x--  libqxim.so
00002aaab652e000    2048       -       -       - -----  libqxim.so
00002aaab672e000       4       -       -       - rw---  libqxim.so
00002aaab810d000       4       -       -       - rw-s-  nvidia0
00002aaabc000000  836144       -       -       - rw---    [ anon ]
00002aaaef08c000   15824       -       -       - -----    [ anon ]
00002b098da9d000     116       -       -       - r-x--  ld-2.6.1.so
00002b098daba000      12       -       -       - rw---    [ anon ]
00002b098dcb9000       8       -       -       - rw---  ld-2.6.1.so
00002b098dcbb000    9576       -       -       - r-x--  libmythtv-0.20.so.0.20.0
00002b098e615000    2044       -       -       - -----  libmythtv-0.20.so.0.20.0
00002b098e814000     304       -       -       - rw---  libmythtv-0.20.so.0.20.0
00002b098e860000      24       -       -       - rw---    [ anon ]
00002b098e866000     552       -       -       - r-x--
libmythavformat-0.20.so.0.20.0
00002b098e8f0000    2048       -       -       - -----
libmythavformat-0.20.so.0.20.0
00002b098eaf0000      44       -       -       - rw---
libmythavformat-0.20.so.0.20.0
00002b098eafb000      16       -       -       - rw---    [ anon ]
00002b098eaff000      40       -       -       - r-x--
libmythavutil-0.20.so.0.20.0
00002b098eb09000    2048       -       -       - -----
libmythavutil-0.20.so.0.20.0
00002b098ed09000       4       -       -       - rw---
libmythavutil-0.20.so.0.20.0
00002b098ed0a000       8       -       -       - rw---    [ anon ]
00002b098ed0c000    4032       -       -       - r-x--
libmythavcodec-0.20.so.0.20.0
00002b098f0fc000    2044       -       -       - -----
libmythavcodec-0.20.so.0.20.0
00002b098f2fb000      88       -       -       - rw---
libmythavcodec-0.20.so.0.20.0

Roo