Tim Schuh replied to the topic 'Memory Leak' in the forum. 4 years ago

hy wrote: I'm curious if there's a common thread among the people who experience this leak (e.g. I still can't replicate it, and as of recently, I don't believe Jasem could either--I know he's hard at work looking into it). For instance, are you all DSLR users? RGB camera users with debayering, etc?

If you experience this leak, could you please post more details about the minimum configuration you use that will trigger this leak.
E.g.:
camera model and type, e.g. Canon DSLR with resolution WxH, ZWO 1600 monochome resolution WxH, ...
fits, raw, ???
Running fitsviewer while you capture?
Processor (e.g. RPi4) on what OS (Raspbian? Ubuntu 18.04? Stellarmate?)
How did you install KStars (Stellarmate, AstroPi3, AstroBerry, ...)
What release are you using when you observed the leak? (released 3.3.9, nightly at what date),

Also, can you tell how much is leaked per image? (e.g. by running the linux command 'ps aux | grep kstars" after every 5th or 10th image for as long as makes sense) and how that relates to the size of the image your camera captures

Thanks,
Hy


I'm on a 4GB RPi4 running StellarmateOS, updated via internet between tests. I haven't got a record of the versions that I experienced this issue with since I've upgraded Stellarmate since then. It would have been what ever packages were published when I started this thread.

Camera I was using here is a QHY168C, consuming about 300MB per frame, filling 4GB of RAM in less than 15 frames. Shooting FITS and debayered. I will test again tonight.

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