On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:47:14 +0200 david martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi > > I run a pretty heavily utilised freevo 1.52 box for recording free to > air tv via an analog tv capture card and mencoder. I have begun to > notice rather alarming memory usage patterns with the freevo record > server threads which make me think either something is leaking memory > or not using garbage collection where it should. Not being overly > familiar with Python memory management I don't dare to guess what > exactly is going on, but consider the attached memory usage stats > taken from top output. > > Over a period of 4 days and about 18 recording events, the resident > memory consumption of the record server seems to have gone from 42Mb > to 165Mb while the main process and the web server have remained > roughly constant. It doesn't looks like there are any orphaned > mencoder child processes hanging around or anything unusual. If I > leave the recordserver for long enough, eventually enough memory is > taken up that most other processes are swapped out of physical memory > and mecoder begins to thrash because of insufficient buffer space > during recordings. Right now I restart the recordserver manually every > few days but it is hardly an optimal solution. > > Anybody have any ideas or suggestions about what to do? This is freevo > 1.52 (Gentoo ebuild) running on Python 2.3.4 over a 2.4.26-gentoo-r14 > tree kernel with V4L and MPlayer 1.0pre5try2-3.3.4. > I am running Gentoo as well, and my amd64 system started going into swap space w/ a gig of memory due to freevo recordings using mencoder. I posted a message to this list about it and the workaround I found. No-one replied to that thread, but you can find the message and the workaround here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10280532 Regards, Jonathan Thambidurai ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
