On 13.03.2012 14:44, Tony Houghton wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:55:06 +0100
Klaus Schmidinger<Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12.03.2012 23:01, Tony Houghton wrote:
...
I do have to restart VDR every few days
anyway, because it has a memory leak. Disabling eepg didn't fix that
IIRC, and the leak hides from valgrind.
Which version of VDR are you using?
Are you sure this is caused by the core VDR code, or could this
be one of the plugins or patches you are using (if any)?
I'm asking because I don't see an ever increasing memory footprint
on my VDR.
No, I haven't seen anybody else complain about this either. It's been
happening to me for quite a long time, for several versions. I use the
Debian packages. I thought it could be the eepg plugin but disabling
that didn't seem to fix the leak. I also use xineliboutput and remote
plugins, but I've been using those for years, before the leak started.
At one point it stopped leaking and I realised I'd messed up my
channels.conf so either all the DVB-T or all the DVB-S channels were
broken and the leak came back when I fixed that. I think I tried
reproducing similar conditions but for some reason I didn't make an
effort to record or remember the results! I should repeat that and make
notes, but it takes about a day on each run before I can be reasonably
sure whether it's leaking or not.
Can you give me an estimate of the rate at which memory is consumed?
Maybe you could have a shell running the command
top -b -d 600 | grep -w vdr
for a while and see whether the numbers increase. This will show a line like
27558 kls 20 0 206m 49m 3860 S 2 2.5 0:33.44 vdr
every ten minutes, where "206m" and "49m" are the relevant columns.
Klaus
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