On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:07:03PM -0500, David I. Lehn wrote: > * Christian Henz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-17T07:42:41-0500]: > > After upgrading the gstreamer lib/plugins, amarok > > ate all available memory (top showed 688MB Virt. before it > > starved). At that point I had listened to some local oggs > > and streamed mp3. I stopped playing but kept amarok open > > and after about ten minutes my system became unresponsive. > > I was able to kill amarok from console, but KDE had hung > > itself by then. > > > > Is this repeatable? Is it just certain files or streams? First guess > would be a buffer leak in gstreamer or amarok but if it happens while > idle it may be something else. Does the same thing happen with other > gstreamer based players such as rhythmbox or muine? >
First of all sorry for the late reply, I was gone for the weekend :-) It is repeatable: In amarok the memory-eating seems to happen only on streams (tried several ones, all MP3), but only when amarok starts to re-buffer the stream: I listened to a stream and the memory stayed constant in top, then i started bittorrent as a bandwidth hog and as soon as the playback stopped for re-buffering the memory usage started to go up (at a rate of >= 1MB/s). There is also a good chance that amarok's gui will freeze at this point when I press 'stop'. Rhythmbox does not seem to suffer from the memory problem, but I could not really tell if it was actually using gst or xine for streaming... (since amarok/xine works too). I could not get Muine to run. cheers, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
