[mythtv-users] How do I find a mythbackend memory leak?
Marc Randolph
mrand at pobox.com
Thu Oct 1 13:47:22 UTC 2009
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:10 AM, jansenj <jansenj+myth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a 0.21-fixes + vdpau build installed in my system, and yesterday, my
> mythbackend started a memory leak. It is consuming all of my memory and
> crashing or I have to kill it. It takes less than 24 hours to consume all
> of my memory 3Gb. Does anyone have any suggestions what to look for?
>
> I've looked through the log, and the only thing suspicious is the following
> filling my log:
>
> 2009-10-01 07:57:45.217 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
> 2009-10-01 07:57:45.364 adding: mythbox as a client (events: 1)
> 2009-10-01 08:00:11.841 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
> 2009-10-01 08:00:12.301 adding: mythbox as a client (events: 0)
> 2009-10-01 08:02:26.511 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
> 2009-10-01 08:02:26.927 adding: mythbox as a client (events: 0)
> 2009-10-01 08:02:36.281 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
> 2009-10-01 08:02:37.040 adding: mythbox as a client (events: 0)
> 2009-10-01 08:03:57.458 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
> 2009-10-01 08:03:58.281 adding: mythbox as a client (events: 0)
Howdy,
If it only started in the past day, the obvious question is "What changed?"
Either with your install (updates?) or network (new machines?).
Good luck!
Marc
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