While long live encoding from sky4linux device like that: ffmpeg -i /dev/dvb/stream\ -sameq -vcodec mpeg2video\ -acodec copy -f mpeg2video /dev/null I see a memory leak with top and vmstat file memory_leak.mpg - part of that stream (cat /dev/dvb/stream >memory_leak_mpg) ), that shows leakage Sorry for size, but it can't be smaller - bug depelo itself only in a long while. Probably there are errors in stream, that are not fully traced in mpeg2video module