[icecast] Ices memory leak?

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Great.  If you have some pointers with further explanations, that'd be
great, because lately I've been wondering why 256 MB fills up all the way
to the point my desktop system slows to a crawl.  Someone seriously messed
with the 2.4.x memory handling.

It's probably caching and mmap'ing lots of stuff but I want it to pipe
DOWN !

o any pointers are appreciated.  Especially on the difference between
buffering and caching and stuff like that.  I got the basics (like memory
of separate threads is shared memory between threads and stuff) covered.

Thomas

Thomas

 > i'd also point out that memory "use" under linux can be
deceptive. > 
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> From: owner-icecast at xiph.org [mailto:owner-icecast at xiph.org]On Behalf Of
> Brendan Cully
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 4:00 PM
> To: icecast at xiph.org
> Subject: Re: [icecast] Ices memory leak?
> 
> 
> On Monday, 10 September 2001 at 12:45, Jason Mansfield wrote:
> > Is anyone else experiencing what seems to be a memory
> > leak with Ices? I can have icecast up and running with
> > WinAmp streaming to it from my '98 box for days at a
> > time with no problem. As soon as I start Ices I'll
> > launch top to watch and my free mem starts dropping
> > -fast-. Starting from about 160MB free, in 4-5 hours I
> > have 2MB free with Ices crashed and the memory
> > unrecovered which sends me to the wonderful world of
> > init 6.
> >    I thought this was maybe that I was just running
> > ices 0.2.2 so I switched to ices 0.1.0 and have the
> > same symptom.
> >    I'm using:
> >     -PII 233MHz 224MB RAM ~400MB Swap
> >     -RedHat 7.1
> >     -lame 3.89b from source
> >     -icecast 1.3.1 from source
> >     -ices 0.1.0/0.2.2 from source
> >    Because this only seems to happen when I used Ices,
> > I can only figure that it's caused by Ices, lame, or
> > one of their required libraries. Any ideas?
> 
> I've run ices on debian sid, kernel 2.4.9, reencoding two streams,
> running for weeks. Right now it's only been up for about 3 days (changed
> my playlist config), but top reports ices using 4 MB total, and free
> says this:
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        191320     188236       3084          0 	  1200     168720
> -/+ buffers/cache:      18316     173004
> Swap:       184708      13164     171544
> 
> this is with 0.2.2, but I've never had any memory-leak problems. I'm
> running against shoutcast at the moment, but I doubt that would make a
> difference.
> 
> Check free and make sure it's not just the filesystem gobbling cache as
> it reads mp3s off your disk.
> 
> -Brendan
> 
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