[vdr] Re: [PATCH] Automatically cleanup exited threads to fixmemory leak

[Sebastian Kemper <Sebastian.Kemper@web.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Sebastian Kemper wrote:
>
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>>Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>>| Jon Burgess wrote:
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>>|>I have noticed for a while that the virtual memory usage of the VDR
>>|>process grows by 16Mb for each channel switch. I can see this reflected
>>|>in the top "size" field for the VDR process. After a large amount of
>>|>channel switches the process would exhaust all of its virtual memory
>>|>allowance and need to be restarted.
>>|
>>|
>>| I can't confirm this on my machine. The memory footprint of VDR
>>|  remains
>>| pretty much constant when switching through channels, even in Transfer
>>Mode
>>| (which is where threads are started/stopped with every channel switch).
>>|
>>| Are you using VDR with any other patches or plugins?
>>| If so, do you have the same problem with plain vanilla VDR?
>>| Is your system using NPTL?
>>
>>Hello Klaus!
>>
>>Is NPTL the way to go? I'm asking because I'm recompiling glibc right
>>now and I have not started the emerge with NPTL support enabled. Should
>>I stop and change it?
>
>
> I was asking because I do _not_ have NPTL here, which might be the 
difference
> that causes this. Since you apparently also didn't use it, we can 
rule this out.
No no no ;) Sorry, but it wasn't me who came up with this patch or who
thinks that there's a problem. I just stumbled upon this thread and
thought "Hey, maybe I should use nptl!". Thanks for clearing the nptl
thingy up. Allthough I couldn't even use it if I wanted to because I'm
not using 2.6.x kernels which is required for nptl (just read that in a
forum).
>
> What remains are the other two questions (patches/plugins).
>
> BTW: please use the standard quoting characters ("> ").
I'll try. I disabled signing. Hope that was the problem.
>
> Klaus
>
>
Bye bye
Sebastian

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