Rpisurv -- start and fails

[ngentil]

● rpisurv.service - Rpisurv Raspberry Pi Surveillance Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rpisurv.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2018-08-26 02:56:22 UTC; 13s ago Process: 6290 ExecStart=/usr/bin/rpisurv (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 6290 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 26 02:56:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: rpisurv.service: Unit entered failed state. Aug 26 02:56:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: rpisurv.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Aug 26 02:56:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: rpisurv.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Aug 26 02:56:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Rpisurv Raspberry Pi Surveillance. Aug 26 02:56:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: rpisurv.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Aug 26 02:56:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start Rpisurv Raspberry Pi Surveillance. Aug 26 02:56:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: rpisurv.service: Unit entered failed state. Aug 26 02:56:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: rpisurv.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

[SvenVD]

Hi, Please show me the output of /var/log/daemon.log, so I can trace the why it is not starting

[ngentil]

Hey! got it working on a raspberry pi 3b

• what worked: Commenting out all unused rtsp streams in /etc/rpisurv

[SvenVD]

Nice you got it working. The rtsp streams in rpisurv are dummy documentation examples, they are not technically valid to be started as is. So you should remove/replace them or comment them.

[ngentil]

Cheers.. Thanks! - im also dissecting what i think is a memory leak, after say 12hrs a 30 second delay builds up - although every 24hrs i have setup a cronjob for a reboot, otherwise the delay increases to about 10 mins + i have recently increased the gpu mem from 64mb to 128mb - time will only tell, will keep you posted...

[SvenVD]

Which version of rpisurv are you running? For me for 1.0 as 2.0beta I am running more then 21hours and I do have like a 1 second delay, the same as on a fresh start. My streams are using substreams so not full HD streams.

[ngentil]

Hey Dude!

Got Back home after work to check the delay on the stream - after 8 hours there was less than 2 second delay, which is the best i think i can ask for considering the hardware and software limitations, although interesting side note, the output of /var/log/daemon.log mentions low GPU MEM so i upped the split from 128mb to 256mb and reboot and this is the following output from /var/log/daemon.

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ tail -f /var/log/daemon.log Aug 28 06:57:40 raspberrypi systemd[565]: Listening on GnuPG cryptographic agent (ssh-agent emulation). Aug 28 06:57:40 raspberrypi systemd[565]: Reached target Sockets. Aug 28 06:57:40 raspberrypi systemd[565]: Reached target Basic System. Aug 28 06:57:40 raspberrypi systemd[565]: Reached target Default. Aug 28 06:57:40 raspberrypi systemd[565]: Startup finished in 55ms. Aug 28 06:57:40 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 1000. Aug 28 06:57:59 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:57:59 - l_default - DEBUG - stats_counter is 5. Only sending every 40 Aug 28 06:57:59 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:57:59 - l_default - DEBUG - Free gpu memory value is 190M <<<-------- 19 seconds in and 66mb of GPU MEM used Aug 28 06:57:59 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:57:59 - l_default - DEBUG - Free memory in bytes: 199229440.0 Aug 28 06:57:59 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:57:59 - l_default - DEBUG - 192.168.1.218 : 554 Connectable Aug 28 06:58:24 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:58:24 - l_default - DEBUG - stats_counter is 6. Only sending every 40 Aug 28 06:58:24 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:58:24 - l_default - DEBUG - Free gpu memory value is 190M Aug 28 06:58:24 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:58:24 - l_default - DEBUG - Free memory in bytes: 199229440.0 Aug 28 06:58:24 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:58:24 - l_default - DEBUG - 192.168.1.218 : 554 Connectable Aug 28 06:58:49 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:58:49 - l_default - DEBUG - stats_counter is 7. Only sending every 40 Aug 28 06:58:49 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:58:49 - l_default - DEBUG - Free gpu memory value is 961 <<<-------- a little over a minute in and less than 1kb of GPU MEM remaining Aug 28 06:58:49 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:58:49 - l_default - DEBUG - Free memory in bytes: 961.0 Aug 28 06:58:49 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:58:49 - l_default - ERROR - Free gpu mem is 961.0 bytes which is less than 80000000 bytes. Streams might fail to start. Consider assigning more memory to gpu in /boot/config.txt with the gpu_mem option Aug 28 06:58:49 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:58:49 - l_default - DEBUG - 192.168.1.218 : 554 Connectable Aug 28 06:59:14 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:59:14 - l_default - DEBUG - stats_counter is 8. Only sending every 40 Aug 28 06:59:14 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:59:14 - l_default - DEBUG - Free gpu memory value is 190M <<<-------- almost 2 minutes and gpu mem has been purged and reloaded - or so it appears Aug 28 06:59:14 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:59:14 - l_default - DEBUG - Free memory in bytes: 199229440.0 Aug 28 06:59:14 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:59:14 - l_default - DEBUG - 192.168.1.218 : 554 Connectable Aug 28 06:59:39 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:59:39 - l_default - DEBUG - stats_counter is 9. Only sending every 40 Aug 28 06:59:39 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:59:39 - l_default - DEBUG - Free gpu memory value is 0 Aug 28 06:59:39 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:59:39 - l_default - DEBUG - Free memory in bytes: 0.0 Aug 28 06:59:39 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:59:39 - l_default - ERROR - Free gpu mem is 0.0 bytes which is less than 80000000 bytes. Streams might fail to start. Consider assigning more memory to gpu in /boot/config.txt with the gpu_mem option Aug 28 06:59:39 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 06:59:39 - l_default - DEBUG - 192.168.1.218 : 554 Connectable Aug 28 07:00:04 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 07:00:04 - l_default - DEBUG - stats_counter is 10. Only sending every 40 Aug 28 07:00:05 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 07:00:05 - l_default - DEBUG - Free gpu memory value is 9K Aug 28 07:00:05 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 07:00:05 - l_default - DEBUG - Free memory in bytes: 9216.0 Aug 28 07:00:05 raspberrypi rpisurv[323]: 2018/08/28 07:00:05 - l_default - ERROR - Free gpu mem is 9216.0 bytes which is less than 80000000 bytes. Streams might fail to start. Consider assigning more memory to gpu in /boot/config.txt with the gpu_mem option

=============================================================================== im led to believe this is a underlying problem within omxplayer memory managment that has never been rectified

• Using Rpisurv 1.0
• Camera Model:UVC G3
• Mode:Standalone
• Width:1920
• Height:1080
• Bitrate:6000 kbps
• FPS:30

[SvenVD]

Hi, thanks for sharing, however in my test setup, I can not reproduce, my memory counters are quite stable. What version of omxplayer you are using? In the end it probably depends on the kind of feed.