long run gstreamer stops working without message

[Robert Krakora]

Hi Thomas,

With what version of ALSA have you tested?  What kernel versions?

Best Regards,

Rob Krakora



On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Thomas DEBESSE <thomas.debesse at rcf.fr>wrote:

> It's not a memory issue.
>
> I encountered a memory leak in the past somewhere in Gstreamer code
> but it is fixed and it had no effect on this problem. I never
> encountered specific memory leak in alsa modules.
>
> Currently, my pipepines run for hours without changing a single byte.
>
> 2013/8/19 Chuck Crisler <ccrisler at mutualink.net>:
> > Could it be a memory issue? 'Top' could help show that.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Thomas DEBESSE <thomas.debesse at rcf.fr>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> 2012/12/5 Krzysztof Konopko <krzysztof.konopko at youview.com>:
> >> > Just a guess... could it be something to do with clock/buffer
> timestamp
> >> > wrap-around or truncation?
> >>
> >> Don't know…
> >>
> >> > The timestamps are 64 bit integers which gives roughly 10^18. The base
> >> > time unit is ns (10^-9) so if we talking about hours we reach values
> at
> >> > most ~10^13. Feels like there's still enough capacity in the timestamp
> >> > type. But maybe specifically alsasink or the the hardware itself
> >> > truncates timestamps and doesn't handle wrap-arounds?
> >>
> >> Good idea, but I tested it with dozens of different hardware
> >> soundcards, with same issues.
> >>
> >> I have filled a detailed bug report in january but nobody has responded
> :
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/gstreamer-bugs/2013-January/099131.html
> >>
> >> Currently, I use a cron that stop / play my pipelines every three hours…
> >>
> >> All pipelines that contain alsasrc or alsasink module become silent or
> >> noisy after dozens of hours. A pipeline linking alsasrc to alsasink
> >> becomes unusable after approximatively three hours.
> >>
> >> It's hardware independant, Gstreamer 0.10 or 1.0 independant, seems
> >> distro independant.
> >>
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