Hi E. S., On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:37 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote:
> This is just a hunch but I think filesystem caching is not counted > towards a process' memory usage, so if you are playing a large movie a > large chunk (or the whole file) may be kept in memory by the > filesystem driver while being memory that is 'available' for immediate > freeing it is counted as %used but not as process used since it's the > driver/kernel. > > Thanks for your reply. However, it also happens to me when playing a file that is 28,407,200 bytes in size while I have over 7 GB of RAM and it consumes hundreds and thousands of megabytes. So it seems unlikely that this is the case here. That put aside, I now have an idea to run vlc under strace and see what it can reveal - so thank you. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish -- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ You can never truly appreciate The Gilmore Girls until you've watched it in the original Klingon. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
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