Hi all, On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all! > > I reported a bug in VLC earlier today about it causing increasing total > RAM consumption: > > https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/17241 > > However, the strange thing is when it happens, the %MEM usage of the > system increases, but I don't see it in htop/top (as root)'s individual > processes' RAM consumption. And the memory gets freed after I quit VLC > Player. > > Why? How is it possible? Where does all the memory go? > > I'm on mageia v6 x86-64 with : > > shlomif@telaviv1:~$ uname -a > Linux telaviv1.shlomifish.org 4.7.0-desktop-2.mga6 #1 SMP Sat Jul 30 > 21:54:30 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Is this a bug somewhere? Any insights will be appreciated. > > One update is that I discovered that the VLC process's "VIRT" column in htop continuously increases while it is exhibiting this problem while the rest of the memory-related columns (including the percentage) remain the same. M_SIZE (VIRT) The size of the virtual memory of the process. Thanks to someone on Freenode for the tip. -- 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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