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Memory leak in Kodi 21 - jools70 - 2024-10-27
Kodi 21 has a bug that manifests itself as a memory leak, which is seen after a day of uptime: multiple lines of
Quote:cma_alloc: linux,cma: alloc failed, req-size: 205 pages, ret: -16in dmesg. The immediate fix is to reboot the system, but the problem appears again after a day or two. The memory is actually not low on the system, and there is also cma-memory available. I'm on rpi5 debian 12 and using:
Kodi Media Center 21.1 (21.1.0) Git:20240830-39fb0e3db7
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dmesg errors:
https://pastebin.com/T7hSJbnB
RE: Memory leak in Kodi 21 - sarbes - 2024-10-27
How have you determined that there is a memory leak?
RE: Memory leak in Kodi 21 - jools70 - 2024-10-27
The error says that it fails to allocate memory.
RE: Memory leak in Kodi 21 - izprtxqkft - 2024-10-27
looks more like a generic raspberry issue with multiple causes/resolutions when googled
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cma%3A+cma_alloc%3A+linux%2Ccma%3A+alloc+failed&ia=web
try providing a Debug Log so we have context to the error
RE: Memory leak in Kodi 21 - sarbes - 2024-10-27
(2024-10-27, 15:29)jools70 Wrote: The error says that it fails to allocate memory.
That's no basis to attest a bug in Kodi.
RE: Memory leak in Kodi 21 - jools70 - 2024-10-28
Yes it is.
I can try to provide logs the next time it happens...
RE: Memory leak in Kodi 21 - MatteN - 2024-10-28
You will probably not get any help without a log that shows the "error" since nobody else had the same problem.
RE: Memory leak in Kodi 21 - Neo1973 - 2024-10-28
A memory leak caused by Kodi isn't impossible but very unlikely. I run Kodi on a RPi3B with a measly 1GB of memory and have no troubles to go multiple days without restarting the system.