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

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

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.
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> | I can't confirm this on my machine. The memory footprint of VDR
> |  remains
> | pretty much constant when switching through channels, even in Transfer
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> | (which is where threads are started/stopped with every channel switch).
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> | 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?
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> Hello Klaus!
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> 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.

What remains are the other two questions (patches/plugins).

BTW: please use the standard quoting characters ("> ").

Klaus


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