On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:03:06PM +0800, bill lam wrote:
Often after using mplayer, Xorg held a lot of memory up to 200MB, and
it did not release without restart. Does this memory leak come from
mplayer or Xorg? Does anyone have similar experience?
Programs usually don't release memory until a restart, but that
doesn't mean it's leaked. If you open a new mplayer instance, it
shouldn't grow again. My guess is that mplayer allocates large
server-side images. If you're running a compositor, it surely
does the same. Try switching video output (-vo ...) drivers.
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Kris Maglione
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary
telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and
it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the
cat.
--Albert Einstein
