> On Mon, 7 April 2003 13:48:17 +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> writes:
> >
> > > Are you sure this is working? When I'm watching a video ofer NFS on
> > > my machine which is idle (just X and mplayer, gnome in background,
> > > 256 MB of memory, 512 swap), after 30 minutes or so, the playback
> > > starts to jump. The cpu usage is below 10%, and it even does this
> > > when both X and mplayer are renice to -19 (!). So the VM swapped
> > > everything out and after 30 minutes it starts to swap out X oder
> > > mplayer itself, which is immediately swapped back in but the video
> > > jumps... :-(
> >
> > How much of your memory is in use? Are you sure there isn't a memory
> > leak somewhere in mplayer?
>
> Anyway, I am quite sure that this is not a kernel problem, so please
> take lkml out of any replies. :)
I'm sorry, I think Måns is right, when the video started to jump,
mplayer took about 60 percent of the memory... in this case I can't
blame the VM. I'm not seeing any reports of memory leaks on its user
list, but my mileage may vary. ;-)
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