Jonathan Thambidurai wrote: >> 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. >> > > 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:
Very strange. Sorry, I can't help you, I don't know the 1.5.x
recordserver at all. Do you both use mencoder for recording? Maybe the
bug is there. Have other people the same problem?
Dischi
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