[vdr] Memory leak (was Re: Channel 4 HD on Freesat)

[Mario Schulz]

Am 13.03.2012 17:52, schrieb Tony Houghton:

> memory leak

I just met hepi, he also is a Doctor Who fan and is tuned to Astra2 as I am.
He complained about the bad status of EEPG, restarting his server every
three days or so due to a memory leak within that plugin.
As this is a 'must have' if you are on Freesat, it might be closely
related, even if you feel it is not...

I personally do not care because I have the receiver off most of the time.

How would you analyze or debug a memory leak in a running environment:
- which thread/plugin is the root cause?
- which datastructure sees the growth?
- which allocs are not bracketed by a proper de-alloc?

Here is the output:

 3621 vdruser   20   0  636m  80m  17m S    2  1.1   0:00.78 vdr
 3621 vdruser   20   0  638m  96m  17m S    3  1.3   0:17.30 vdr
 3621 vdruser   20   0  643m 100m  17m S    3  1.3   0:34.20 vdr