[micha_L]

Hi everybody,

this is my first posting here so I take the chance to introduce myself.
My name is Michael, 43 years old, german. That's why I hope you will excuse my poor english.

I'm running raspbmc with tvheadend on a raspi b (512).
The difficulties begin after watching life tv. tvheadend uses more and more ram. After some 10 minutes life tv stops and restarts after half a minute (or so). pid of tvheadend has changed by the time so that I presume tvheadend stopped because of lacking memory and was automatically restarted.

tvheadend is running on the same pi that I connected to my television via hdmi.
The only other addon is a wether forecast (as much as I know). I connected a Hauppauge Wintv-Nova-USB2 box for life tv. Power supply is 5V, 2.1 A via micro usb.

Ah, yes, version of tvheadend is unknown (tvheadend-0.0.0-unknown or similar). It came with XBMC version 13.2-BETA1 Git:20140604-84725b0. Platform: ARM Linux 32-bit

Thanks in advance for help, hints and support.

regards
Michael

[negge]

What version of tvheadend do you use?

[micha_L]

Hi,

Code:

tvheadend -v

returns

Code:

tvheadend: version 0.0.0~unknown

.

What else can I do to obtain the version?

By the way, if I stream from tvheadend to my tablet, memory usage of tvheadend stays constant (under 3 %).
The problem only occurs, if I watch life tv with xbmc.
Should I increase gpu_mem_512 from 128?

regards
Michael

[negge]

Look on the About tab in the web interface. If it also says 0.0.0-unknown you have some random build, if so try compiling it yourself.

[micha_L]

Hi,

about says the same.
All the same, I installed tvheadend from reproin the first place with no significant difference.

Can you tell me, if an increase of gpu_mem would help?

regards
Michael

[negge]

I doubt it will help, but I don't have a Pi so who am I to say. I would suggest you try the stable version (3.4), at least that one is certain to not have any memory leaks. I have some issues myself with the master branch, though I have a monitoring solution that restarts tvheadend if it starts consuming more memory.

[micha_L]

Hi,

thanks for your help.
I'll try to compile it myself, then.

Will you tell me some details about your 'monitoring solution'?

regards
Michael

[negge]

I use a software called "monit", it can monitor any program running on your computer and take various actions based on things like memory usage etc. Here's my configuration file for tvheadend:

check process tvheadend with pidfile /run/tvheadend.pid
start program = "/etc/init.d/tvheadend start" with timeout 30 seconds
stop program = "/etc/init.d/tvheadend stop"
if totalmem > 1024.0 MB for 1 cycles then restart
depends on oscam

[micha_L]

Hi,

thanks a lot.

regards
Michael