Stefan Seyfried wrote: > i have a strange bug here, observed both on a cinergyT2 and a > budget-ci card (Hauppauge nova-s): > if i leave an EPG-grabber application running (e.g. dvbrowse or > tv_grab_epg) and change transponders / multiplexes, i will soon > run out of kernel memory. > I did a small setup with a cronjob that is tuning once per hour > to all 6 Nuernberg multiplexes, leaves it running for 2 minutes > and tv_grab_dvb dumps the EPG information. > Every run of this cronjob "loses" about 10MB of kernel memory. > Just now i reproduced it at home with the DVB-S setup, running > dvbrowse and then tuning in all Astra 19.2e transponders and the > result was the same. > > I am using SUSE 9.3 with kernel 2.6.11.4, there are no SUSE-specific > DVB patches in the kernel. > > Has anybody else seen something like that? I first suspected that > the cinergyT2 driver might be fubar, but now it looks more like a > general problem in sections handling. VDR does EPG scanning all the time, if there's be a leak I guess someone had noticed already. How do you measure the "10MB kernel memory lost"? Johannes
