Re: mythtv-backend jessie amd64 memory leak

Christian, hold off before spending time on this.

This issue may have been triggered by the cmyth plugin on my XBMC frontend.
It looks like this plugin does not like having its backend rebooted
out from under it.

I'm going to run a couple of tests tomorrow to try and isolate root cause.


On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Martin Gallant <martyg@???> wrote:
> I am seeing repeatable crashes on MythTV backend for the past 2 days.
> mythbackend[<pid>] trap int3 ip:7fd0de5c0e8d sp:7fcdaf46db80 error:0
>
> This is a amd64 machine running jessie, with all the latest updates.
> The version I have installed is 0.27.0+fixes20131204-dmo1
>
> These traps appear after a regular time (2-3 hours) after I restart the service.
> I am a little over my head with the debugging skills, but this looks
> like a memory leak.
> Using top, I see mythbackend process VIRT gorwing by about 3MB/s with
> no upper bound.
>
> I'm not sure if this is relevant, but the introduction this issue
> seems to coincide with jessie upgrading the c++ libraries yesterday.
>
> mythbackend has been rock-solid for me for almost a year, until this happened.
>
> Am I the only one seeing this problem?
> What can I do to isolate this down to a couple of packes to try and downgrade?
>
> Thanks n advance,
>
> --
> Marty



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Marty