[Cin] Complete system hangs (likely out of memory)

Andrew Randrianasulu randrianasulu at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 04:31:08 CET 2023


вт, 24 янв. 2023 г., 06:28 Phyllis Smith <phylsmith2017 at gmail.com>:

> Andrew, I did get a little confused by part 1 and part 2 of that checkin.
> Did I get it wrong?
>


no ... I hope.

does removing line I introduced

         total_lock->unlock();

help with leak?


> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 8:26 PM Phyllis Smith <phylsmith2017 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Andrew,
>> I found where the problem was introduced.
>> Dec. 6, 2022 GIT is good.   3c7c8a08800c3e100388996f0e2c2eea9761ebe1
>> Dec.27, 2022 GIT is bad.    175a7314e8e927128787feeb7ba5f42530f0a319
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 7:51 PM Andrew Randrianasulu <
>> randrianasulu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> вт, 24 янв. 2023 г., 02:44 Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de>:
>>>
>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> When changing this, to be more in line with the "HV" code...
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/cinelerra-5.1/cinelerra/playbackengine.C
>>>> b/cinelerra-5.1/cinelerra/playbackengine.C
>>>> index 815e506f..3c2a9368 100644
>>>> --- a/cinelerra-5.1/cinelerra/playbackengine.C
>>>> +++ b/cinelerra-5.1/cinelerra/playbackengine.C
>>>> @@ -172,9 +172,9 @@ void PlaybackEngine::create_cache()
>>>>  {
>>>>         cache_lock->lock("PlaybackEngine::create_cache");
>>>>         if( audio_cache )
>>>> -               audio_cache->remove_user();
>>>> +               delete audio_cache;
>>>>         if( video_cache )
>>>> -               video_cache->remove_user();
>>>> +               delete video_cache;
>>>>         audio_cache = new CICache(preferences);
>>>>         video_cache = new CICache(preferences);
>>>>         cache_lock->unlock();
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ...will result in a fix for the memory leak, but does cause a warning
>>>> message.
>>>>
>>>> Garbage::~Garbage: title=CICache users=1 was not deleted by
>>>> Garbage::remove_user
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This was changed with f5725c7e (7/4/20).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://git.cinelerra-gg.org/git/?p=goodguy/cinelerra.git;a=blobdiff;f=cinelerra-5.1/cinelerra/playbackengine.C;h=82bd7bb6587b930b77caa7f4da7673255539b3a3;hp=8ce98234c3ffc7ed2b0ed6e4c00b4f6e3fa749ee;hb=f5725c7e12def18fec49a295dad688652edaa4b3;hpb=c387b8938dc838e5b92d1cd735975d0928ecf61a
>>>
>>>
>>> hm ....
>>>
>>> may be you also can try to restore this idea about calling new only if
>>> cache does not exist ...
>>>
>>> @@ -162,10 +164,12 @@ void PlaybackEngine::wait_render_engine()
>>>
>>>  void PlaybackEngine::create_cache()
>>>  {
>>> -       if(audio_cache) { delete audio_cache;  audio_cache = 0; }
>>> -       if(video_cache) { delete video_cache;  video_cache = 0; }
>>> -       if(!audio_cache) audio_cache = new CICache(preferences);
>>> -       if(!video_cache) video_cache = new CICache(preferences);
>>> +       if( audio_cache )
>>> +               audio_cache->remove_user();
>>> +       if( video_cache )
>>> +               video_cache->remove_user();
>>> +       audio_cache = new CICache(preferences);
>>> +       video_cache = new CICache(preferences);
>>>  }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But also shows that many unrelated
>>>> changes cause real issues to hide. I found this by hand, not even using
>>>> git
>>>> bisect. I understand the urge for the garbage collector, but for some
>>>> reason not behaving. What I notice is that the 'last' object is empty
>>>> when
>>>> it is actually destroyed by the garbage collector (~CICache). What is
>>>> the
>>>> best way going forward?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Stefan
>>>>
>>>
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