[mythtv-users] mythbackend still eats memory: the current status

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 01/09/2009 09:37 AM, Greg Estabrooks wrote:
>>>> Would 1.666 Ghz AMD Thunderbird be 'powerfull' enough to run both the
>>>> backend and valgrind?
>>>>
>>> That should be fine to run both.
>> Assuming you have sufficient RAM.
> 
> Sorry to jump in here so late in the thread...
> 
> I just tried running mythbackend under valgrind for about 30 seconds
> and got some output. Keeping in mine that I was running a tunerless
> backend which is unsupported (although I don't think that would be an
> excuse to leak memory), is the below normal or a problem? It did start
> a commflag job from the MBE...

Interesting.
Supported or not, it shows a leak.
It could point to a situation where a system *with* tuner does a similar 
thing.

I do hope this gets picked up.
Else file a bug report?

Thanks!

Udo