BUG: Memory usage of motion is extremly high if Netcam is in use - Raspberry Pi 512MB

As mentioned above, motion uses every few seconds more Memory, until it gets killed because of a "out of memory" message in syslog. I can see the memory usage getting more and more with the terminal programm htop. It only happens with a netcam attached - a usb webcam works fine and only uses 70MB of RAM when motion is detected. With the netcam, the memory usage goes up until RAM and swap are totally full - without motion. Just a still image. It doesnt seem to be a problem with the netcam_http option, because I tried all options but nothing helped. I have a *.conf file for both cameras and have the important settings in them configured. Hardware is a Raspberry Pi with 512MB RAM - this shouldnt be a problem.

Here ar my config files:

motion.conf

thread1.conf

thread2.conf

Environment

Motion version:	3.2.12
ffmpeg version:
Shared libraries:	ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql
Server OS:	Rasbian 3.12.34+

-- ChristopherStein - 10 Dec 2014

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