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Author:  snaproll [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:02 am ]
Post subject:  Memory Leak ?

The back end was down on one of my older (K-M 5.5) mythboxes, which scarfs down large numbers of SD programs from the satellite box. Usually it runs long periods with no attention at all. A re-boot fixed it.

Dmesg said:
Quote:
Normal free:31980kB min:2788kB low:3484kB high:4180kB lots:5576kB active:6048kB inactive:414916kB present:503428kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
DMA: 60*4kB 2*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2288kB
Normal: 6193*4kB 597*8kB 20*16kB 4*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 31980kB
Swap cache: add 496576, delete 496576, find 126476/150041, race 171+4
Free swap = 32kB
Total swap = 514072kB
Free swap: 32kB
130944 pages of RAM
0 pages of HIGHMEM
2961 reserved pages
6678 pages shared
7 pages swap cached
0 pages dirty
0 pages writeback
84 pages mapped
6787 pages slab
563 pages pagetables
Out of memory: kill process 31577 (mythbackend) score 121030 or a child
Killed process 31577 (mythbackend)



For educational purposes, is this out of memory due to a 'memory leak' ?

Author:  neutron68 [ Sat Dec 25, 2010 5:18 pm ]
Post subject:  R5.5 memory leak

Yes. R5.5 suffers from a memory leak. I either reboot or use the "pkill xinit" command about every 2 weeks.

If you look with the "top" command, you can watch xorg take more and more memory every few days.

Eric

Author:  snaproll [ Sat Dec 25, 2010 5:36 pm ]
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Well this one sits and runs pretty much like the sunrise, so I was surprised when it happened the first time.

Probably a monthly re-boot will banish the possibility of it recurring and losing some of the wife's soaps...... :lol:
and diminishing my WAF ..... :D

I don't have a reboot schedule for any of the others...
They could go 6 months before anything comes up causes a reboot...

Author:  neutron68 [ Sat Dec 25, 2010 6:02 pm ]
Post subject:  a RRD graph

Heres a look at the memory usage RRD graph of my R5.5 box over the last few weeks. The sharp falls in mem usage is where I rebooted or used the "pkill xinit" command. I usually don't like to see the memory usage get above 50%.

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Author:  snaproll [ Sat Dec 25, 2010 7:49 pm ]
Post subject: 

Wow! ... That's a pretty good documenting of the phenomena... My hat's off to ya !! .....

:D

Author:  neutron68 [ Sat Dec 25, 2010 8:51 pm ]
Post subject:  its RRD

snaproll wrote:
Wow! ... That's a pretty good documenting of the phenomena... My hat's off to ya !! .....

:D
I can't really take credit for the nice graph. It's all built-into R5.5. You access RRD graphs via Mythweb. If you log into your R5.5 KM box via mythweb (type the IP address of your KM box in a web browser...192.168.1.10:portnumber), the first screen you see says KNOPPMYTH at the top with a picture of Tux holding a remote control. If you scroll down the screen, you'll see a heading called RRD. Click there and look through all the graphs of system resources. It's pretty handy sometimes.
Eric

Author:  snaproll [ Sun Dec 26, 2010 7:55 am ]
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I ran a bunch of RRD graphs when they first became available.
They showed boring normal operation....

So I eventually turned them off to save processor cycles...
I hadn't even considered that turning them on for this machine might draw the instructive graph you posted ! ... :lol:

Author:  neutron68 [ Sun Dec 26, 2010 11:13 am ]
Post subject:  the last year

You can see memory usage got a pretty big at the start of August 2010. We went on vacation and I didn't reboot before we left.

Image

Image

Author:  tjc [ Sun Dec 26, 2010 12:19 pm ]
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The swap graph is the one I watch, when that starts to climb it's time to reboot or at least restart the X server and apps. When this thread reminded me to check it yesterday it was up to 40%, which means that I'm still seeing a leak of some kind under R6.03.

Author:  snaproll [ Sun Dec 26, 2010 2:16 pm ]
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Looks like the RRD graphs are highly educational about long term trends running KM and LH.

I wouldn't have noticed with 6, cuz it goes so long something else comes up that gets it rebooted, well before running into the message I kicked this off with .....

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