On 10 Feb 2014 at 20:19, dinkypumpkin dinkypumpkin <dinkypump...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/02/2014 17:39, Nick wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:20:12 +0000 > > Jimmy Aitken <jimmy.ait...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Does anyone have any thought as to why this may have started? I'm now > >> reticent to leave any jobs running automatically via cron in case this > >> starts up again, and my machine in unusable when I get back to it. > > This problem has been reported a number of times over the years. > Apparently, when rtmpdump is fed garbage or suffers dropouts due to > upstream problems, it can sometimes become a runaway and begin eating > memory. Perhaps it's just obeying some bogus parameter values - I don't > really know. There was a patch to rtmpdump a couple of years ago > purporting to address the problem, but it hasn't proved to be a complete > solution. I've been hit a few times, but like you I've never been able > to repeat the error to debug it. Possibly related to above gigo runaway. Occasionaly rtmpdump is downloading at ~500KBS, but no files are increasing in size. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
