Maybe it's writing/logging something to a tmpfs folder (like /tmp) -- Rabin
On 3 August 2016 at 16:43, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 . > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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