[MPlayer-users] BUG: memory leak in endless loop mplaylist playing

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 12/6/06, Andrew Savchenko <Bircoph at list.ru> wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
> I'm using almost recent MPlayer dev-SVN-r21458-4.0.2.
> While I playing with this command:
> mplayer -shuffle -loop 0 -playlist playlist_file -af volnorm=2
> I've got endless playing of course.
>
> Then check a memory usage. I grows at about 50-60
> Mbytes/per_day_of_playing of resident memory. I've checked for
> some days, it grows to some hundreds of memory. It's a pity.
>
> Each file in list is about 4-5 min length (in average), they're
> mostly ogg music.
>
> Then I've forced file switching in list (by '>' or '<' key). Memory
> leak clearly appears: $ top -p <mplayer pid1> -p <mplayer pid2>
> shows memory grow by about 200 Kbyte/per_new_file (resident
> memory). This is in conformance with per day results (24*60/5*0.2
> ~= 58 MBytes/per day).
>
> So, it seems that there is a memory leakage while switching to new
> file in list. I'm slightly in doubt how debug this to provide
> additional data.
>
> I've checked with some previous versions (down to about pre8), it
> seems it is a very old bug.

Valgrind is the app you wanna use to track mem leaks: http://valgrind.org/

Guillaume
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