[hobleyd]

Hello,

I have xbmc (Dharma) configured to display my pictures as the screensaver (there are lots of pictures over 10 years worth on there). What I am finding is that when xbmc is first started (as a service under Ubuntu 10.10) it reports ~0.5 Gig of memory being used, but over the next 24 hours, that creeps up every couple of seconds.

Montioring the process using top, I see the VIRT and RES memory inching upwards, right now, approximately 3 hours after having restarted it, the VIRT is up at 1142m and the RES at 675m. The last time I stopped it, both were in the couple of gigs range. Since I started writing this, the VIRT is now up to 1234m and RES of 724m (although there are variances as it goes up and down, just that it trends upwards).

I need do nothing to it apart from leaving it running and eventually it will use all available memory (or crash).

Has anyone else seen this?

Cheers,
David

[hobleyd]

For what it is worth, after 24 hours, top is reporting 4127m of VIRT and 3.3g of RES memory.

[bobo1on1]

Does the same thing happen when disabling the screensaver?

[hobleyd]

No it doesn't; it appears localised to the screensaver when it is displaying random pictures from my pictures folder.

[marco.heykant]

This happens on the windows version too. The normal slideshow seems to do the same thing, al be it at a slower pace than the screensaver.

In my case (W7 64bit, xbmc 10.0) xbmc freezes on a black/grey screen after consuming 1,5GB of memory. This is after running for about 3 hours on the screensaver. I'm testing the normal picture slideshow at the moment. After turning off the picture screensaver the freeze doesn't happen.

Do you have a debug log too compare?

[alindl]

FYI, i seem to be getting this too, but i've got 2 pc's and one with a nvidia gpu locks up with massive memory usage, the ati one doesnt seem to or is at least much slower.

[marco.heykant]

I've recently gotten a new laptop which has an ati card, i'll try it on that one.