[MPlayer-users] Inactive RAM problem in OS X 10.5

[Joshua Lippai]

I should mention something about the inactive RAM use: it seems to
jump up every time I skip forward or backward in MPlayer. Also, this
behaviour manifests in every video out I've tried.

Josh

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Joshua Lippai <discerptor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have noticed since starting to use Mac OS X 10.5 that Mplayer (both
> commandline compiled from SVN and "MPlayer OSX variants) that playing
> files in MPlayer causes a certain amount (perhaps proportional to the
> size of the file) of Memory to go into "Inactive" mode. This would be
> fine if the memory functioned as advertised and got allocated to
> programs that need it when "free" RAM runs out, but I find that it
> does not get reallocated. Thus if I open several video files in a row,
> each one adds to the "Inactive RAM" amount and at a certain point the
> entire computer (including MPlayer, since even it can't use this
> memory it tagged as "inactive") starts lagging because it has run out
> free memory and cannot access the inactive memory. I was wondering if
> anyone has found a way around this problem, and if not, whether
> someone knows enough about OS X development to perhaps point me in the
> right direction to look into perhaps making a patch to get MPlayer to
> only take RAM as "active" in OS X, since this all gets released by
> MPlayer once it quits. Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
> Josh
>