[trsqr]

I mentioned yesterday that there seems to be some strange behaviour when it comes to memory usage of kodi. With the OpenELEC build from post #2 it crashes after watching n videos (where n seems to be something between 50 and 100 in my system). After each video, kodi seems to consume more memory according to system info page. The system became unusable when memory usage was at 72%.

Then I prepared an ubuntu system according to post #1 and #2. The memory usage is approximately 300 megs when I start kodi. After each video it seems to raise a bit. I took screen shots from the situation and stored them at http://trsqr.net/kodi . Strange thing is, the memory consumption reaches 83% (on my 4GB RAM system that corresponds to Kodi using 3120 MB RAM), but never goes further from that. Also, the system stays completely usable. When I quit Kodi everything is fine and all memory is available. When I start it again, this sequence starts from the beginning.

I did run valgrind with parameters --logfile=filename, --leak-check=full and --undef-value-errors=no, but the results do not show anything. The result is in the text file in the above link.

Another strange thing is, that if I disable VA-API from Kodi settings, the memory usage stays at around 300 megs no matter how many times I watch Big Buck Bunny. With VA-API enabled, it seemed to go up 5-30 MB after each video viewing. It seemed to grow fastest when using the video http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming....normal.mp4 .

dmesg: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12066513/
dpkg -l: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12065976/
vainfo: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12066521/
kodi.log with debugging, watched two movies with VA-API and exited (memory usage was 500 megs at that point): http://paste.ubuntu.com/12066571/

Can I somehow further debug this?