On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 08:07:17PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > VDR does EPG scanning all the time, if there's be a leak I guess maybe most people use VDR with FF cards? > someone had noticed already. > > How do you measure the "10MB kernel memory lost"? start the machine with almost no services running log the output of "free", /proc/slabinfo and /proc/meminfo start the epg scanner, basically: -------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash for i in arte ZDF N24 BR-alpha Eurosport VOX; do tzap -r $i > /dev/null 2>&1 & pid=$! tv_grab_dvb > /dev/null kill $pid sleep 1 done after this, log "free", /proc/slabinfo and /proc/meminfo again. Repeat. free shows about 10mb "used" more after every round. Everything else looks normal. After ~25 to 30 rounds, the machine runs OOM, without even starting to swap (sure, kernel memory cannot be swapped). I also checked with the suse kernel gurus at work - they also wanted to talk me out of the "kernel memleak" theory but did not succeed ;-) -- Stefan Seyfried
