[vdr] Re: vdr-memory-leak?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Guido Fiala wrote:
> 
> After watching some recordings and doing one recording vdr shows up the
> following
> 
> >ps -aux
> video     5807  1.5 10.6 134600 13488 ?      S    16:37   1:00
> /usr/local/bin/vdr -w 20 -D 0 -l 0 -v /data1/videos
> video     5808  0.0 10.6 134600 13488 ?      S    16:37   0:00
> /usr/local/bin/vdr -w 20 -D 0 -l 0 -v /data1/videos
> video     5809  2.9 10.6 134600 13488 ?      S    16:37   1:52
> /usr/local/bin/vdr -w 20 -D 0 -l 0 -v /data1/videos
> 
> See the virtual memory size? 134 MByte, very strange.
> 
> It starts with about 5000 and eats up 4-5Mbyte every time a recording is made
> or replayed...

Apparently the index file data is not deleted at the end of a recording
or replay.

You can add the line

  cIndexFile::~cIndexFile()
  {
    if (f >= 0)
       close(f);
    delete fileName;
+   delete index;
  }

in dvbapi.c to fix this.

Klaus
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