Re: [Savonet-users] Liquidsoap + memory usage + buffering.kind

[Martin K. <mar...@so...>]

Hi Romain,

You are right :) It looks like Liquidsoap is using half the memory we
thought it was. Thanks for this.

Martin

2012/2/15 Romain Beauxis <to...@ra...>

> 2012/2/15 Martin Konečný <mar...@so...>:
> > Hi David, Romain,
>
> Hi Martin!
>
> > I was looking into reducing the Liquidsoap memory footprint and stumbled
> > across this:
> > http://savonet.sourceforge.net/doc-0.9.1/optimization.html
> >
> > I don't see this page in the 1.0 final documentation, so I was wondering
> if
> > this setting is still supported? Trying it out shows no changes in memory
> > usage.
>
> These changes never proved to be any useful so they were dropped some
> time later..
>
> > Currently our Liquidsoap script takes roughly 180MB so we would like to
> try
> > reducing the footprint.
>
> Hmm.. That seems a lot indeed. How many streams are you running to get
> this footprint? Also, is that a stable number (do you suspect a memory
> leak) ?
>
> Finally, are you sure that this 180MB represents the amount of memory
> actually used by the process? I believe that there is a difference
> between the memory space, i.e. memory address pointers that are
> accessible by the application and memory actually instantiated. For
> instance, on RadioPi, we have:
>  279m  58m
> Which is 279MB of memory virtual space but 58MB of memory actually
> allocated. Since this is for 9 different streams running with the same
> script, I wonder about your number above :-)
>
> Romain
>



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