Motion - Webcam Mempool
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Mempool for webcam

Description of Patch

module webcam always mallocs and frees memory for each jpeg.

this patch implements a pool for unused memory.

if memory is needed first unused memory from the pool is used or malloced

Also fixed a small bug: webcam_add_client misses new->tmpbuffer->ref++

Installation of Patch

patch < webcam.diff

Then re-build Motion and test the patch.

Change History of Patch

  • 1.0 webcam mempool and small refcount bugfix

Discussion and Comments

Peter , your patch seems a nice idea , but has some errors.

webcam.c: En la función `webcam_tmpbuffer_unuse':
webcam.c:99: error: structure has no member named `next'
webcam.c: En la función `webcam_tmpbuffer':
webcam.c:212: error: structure has no member named `next'
webcam.c:213: error: structure has no member named `buffersize'
webcam.c:215: error: structure has no member named `buffersize'
webcam.c:221: error: structure has no member named `buffersize'
webcam.c: En la función `webcam_stop':
webcam.c:344: error: structure has no member named `next'
make: *** [webcam.o] Error 1

So please could you fix them ?

-- AngelCarpintero - 11 Jan 2006

Sorry, forgot to inlcude webcam.h

Also included a patch for initialising ffmpeg_deinterlace to 0 in config.c

-- PeterHolik - 12 Jan 2006

Thanks Peter , i assume that the patch is against last daily snapshot , isn't it?

-- AngelCarpintero - 13 Jan 2006

I am integrating this today and will try and run with it for a few days.

If it is stable and does not leak - it will be in 3.2.5.

Nice work

SVN 47 / Motion-daily 20060523

-- KennethLavrsen - 22 Feb 2006


I have reverted this patch. It turns out that it memory leaks. 2-4 MB in a day when you have 9 cameras.

It needs more work before we commit it again.

-- KennethLavrsen - 23 Feb 2006

  • Now i initialize tmpbuffer->next to NULL
  • log every new webcam_tmpbuffer: webcambuffer new (count %d size %d)
  • log every resize webcambuffer realloc (size from %d to %d)

please give it a try an patch to snapshot motion-20060711-051001

i have 3 webcams with 4fps running and pull all the time the mjpegstreams

-- PeterHolik - 12 Jul 2006

I have attached a 24 hour statistik of my PII-233Mhz with 3 cam's at 4fps streaming.

-- PeterHolik - 16 Jul 2006

Fixed patch to work with current svn ( svn r292 ). Not tested yet with valgrind though.

-- AngelCarpintero - 30 Dec 2007

Update patch , fixed segfault ( double free ).

-- AngelCarpintero - 31 Dec 2007

Pool of memory is increasing a never is freed, so it needs a kind of garbage collector.

-- AngelCarpintero - 06 Jan 2008
I Attachment Action Size Date Who Comment
cpu.pngpng cpu.png manage 26 K 16 Jul 2006 - 07:46 UnknownUser  
load.pngpng load.png manage 29 K 16 Jul 2006 - 07:46 UnknownUser  
memory.pngpng memory.png manage 17 K 16 Jul 2006 - 07:45 UnknownUser  
webcam2.diffdiff webcam2.diff manage 4 K 12 Jan 2006 - 08:55 UnknownUser  
webcam3.diffdiff webcam3.diff manage 5 K 12 Jul 2006 - 13:24 UnknownUser  
webcampool.diffdiff webcampool.diff manage 6 K 31 Dec 2007 - 14:39 AngelCarpintero fixed to work against svn -r292 fixed double free
Topic revision: r12 - 06 Jan 2008, AngelCarpintero
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