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VLC/pulse nasty memory leak.
« on: April 18, 2011, 03:09:24 PM »
Been happening for a few days. I'd hoped updating to the latest VLC would fix it.  :(

Now using fully updated LXDE. I have a machine that grabs podcasts with gpodder and plays them using VLC which is outputting to pulse. Playing fine for 5 to 15 minutes and then the sound stops, the mouse crawls and (virtual) memory usage by the VLC process goes past 1GB size within a few seconds! If I don't catch it quick enough and kill VLC, the whole system gets baked forcing a reboot. If the leak is caught early, I can restart VLC and replay a file until it happens again.

Haven't tried yet any other combinations of hardware/software, except if I play the podcast files in XMMS there is no problem. Xmms is using the OSS driver which pulse, of course, emulates. So I don't yet know if it is pulse or vlc.

Sorry for the vagueness, just putting this out there in case it's not just my system that is somehow baulked.  ;)

Kernel is 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs

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Re: VLC/pulse nasty memory leak.
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2011, 05:12:59 PM »
what video card/driver do you have?

why are you using pulseaudio?
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Re: VLC/pulse nasty memory leak.
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2011, 05:26:49 PM »
Quote from: T6 on April 18, 2011, 05:12:59 PM
what video card/driver do you have?
I should have said these are mp3's only but it is a GeForce FX 5200 (NV34)

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why are you using pulseaudio?

Cos it makes the system tolerate updates better with the darla20. Before, nearly every update would break sound some new way. Since I went to pulse the system seems to always play sounds. And I am becoming more used to it the more I use it.  :D

Do you think I should pull out pulse and go back to using just alsa?

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Re: VLC/pulse nasty memory leak.
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2011, 08:38:50 PM »
it is a option

also be sure that your video card is using the right drivers
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Re: VLC/pulse nasty memory leak.
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2011, 07:49:06 AM »
Have you tried playing the files with other (possibly simpler) tools (such as mpg123) to see if the problem still occurs?
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