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XBMC memory leak remedy

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XBMC (now Kodi) has always had a tendency of leaking memory, so that it will eventually thrash and crash. My simple solution to this is to run xbmc inside a for loop instead of directly (just run the script from .xinitrc):

xbmc_angel.sh:

#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]; do
xbmc
nohup sleep 10
done

...And add the following to the local XBMC user's crontab:

0 4 * * *       killall xbmc.bin

This will kill XBMC every night at 4 o'clock. And give you a fresh XBMC every day!