Ott Joon <ott.j...@tutanota.com> writes:
> Hey there
>
> I have the exact same issue and I think this has to do with
> gstreamer. Some other programs are also affected by this bug. What
> seems to happen is the gst-plugin-scanner starts searching for plugins
> and just doesn't finish and leaks memory a ton. My 128GB of RAM will
> be full in seconds if I launch anything that uses gstreamer. Even
> virt-manager if you have gst-plugin-* packages installed as then the
> gst-plugin-scanner is awakened. I had to remove them or unset
> GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH. Unfortunately OBS seems to have this feature
> built in, so it's not something you can remove. This is all I know at
> the moment.
>
> Ott
Hi Ott,
Thanks for the lead. I tried pinning gstreamer and gst-plugins-base to
older versions available in Guix, and removing gst-plugins-base from
being an input to OBS (though I'm not positive this removes it from all
recursive inputs), but I'm still having the issue :(
Here is what I have so far:
(let ((parent (specification->package "obs")))
(package
(inherit parent)
(inputs (modify-inputs (package-inputs parent)
(replace "gstreamer"
((options->transformation '((with-version .
"gstreamer=1.20.3")))
(specification->package "gstreamer")))
(replace "gst-plugins-base"
((options->transformation '((with-version .
"gst-plugins-base=1.20.3")))
(specification->package
"gst-plugins-base")))))))
Also tried with (remove "gst-plugins-base") instead of the replace.
Robby
