[MPlayer-dev-eng] Where to free loose memory?

Attila Kinali attila at kinali.ch
Sat Sep 25 17:17:01 CEST 2004


On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 07:33:18AM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
 
> Hm. I've been using mplayer as my main mp3 player for a few weeks now,
> as other mp3 players have regressed into an almost unusable state, sadly.

Well... join the club :/

I thought a few times to strip mplayer apart and make an mp3 player out
of it, but i was always too lazy to do it.

> Haven't noticed any increasing memory usage or odd behaviour (other than
> bugs I can safely blame on alsa-lib, grrr!). Been only running it for 6 - 12
> hours at a time though.

Check the memory usage of mplayer, if it's above a few MB the memleak is
still there. And yes, 6h is more than enough to hit it.

			Attila Kinali




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