Re: [Freevo-users] Possible memory leak

Paul Sijben Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:56:31 -0800

There efinitely seems to be a memory leak somewhere in freevo. I left my freevo box doing nothing for a while waiting in the section of internet radio stations and one morning it was clearly out of memory, it was constantly swapping and everything was i.....n.....c......r.....e.....d....i....b....l....y.....s....l....o....w. (and that was just the LCD updates)

so I had to powercycle it.

I have not found the cause yet but will post when I have more info.

Paul

Esben Jensen wrote:

Hi

First of all thanks for a great toy. :)

I've spent countless of hours playing around with freevo and I really like the design and the customizability.

Anyway recently Freevo started crashing on me after a while. I think it started when i played around with fxd files and cover images, but this is probably just a symptom. When playing a video file, it will run for about 20 minutes and then it is terminated by the kernel beause of lack of memory.

It seems that freevo continually tries to update the media in my drives, with an interval of a few seconds. When I browse a CD the filelist suddenly disappears. I belive this is caused by identifymedia.py when it unmounts the drive. I managed to 'fix' this by commenting out the line that unmounts, but this doesn't fix the memory issues of course. And it's a rather ugly hack. :)

I'm not really sure if the problem is with freevo, or some other part of my system that keeps notifying about media change. And i don't really know how to test this? I have two drives a DVD drive and a CD-RW, both IDE drives. The problem exists with both of them.
Some info about my system:
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20
Memory: 256 Mb RAM - 256 Mb swap
DVD drive using normal IDE module
CD-RW using ide-scsi module
freevo 1.3.2-pre2
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