Re: [xine-user] xine memory usage in a embbeded linux set-top box (Internet Appliance) ...

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi,

> I am working on a set-top box using xine and some
> other applications in an embbeded linux (LFS).

Just out of curiosity: Is that just a proof-of-concept project or will that 
set-top box be commercially available?

> I am working with a 128 MB RAM and I have some problems
> with it. After  some time of playing video xine
> crashes. but this never happens with a 256 MB memory.
> The capacity of memory related to its cost is very
> important for our company. Is realy 128 MB of memory
> low for running xine ?

128MB should be quite enough for xine. Maybe you have to remove some unneeded 
plugins or reduce the stream fifo size (using the config entries 
{audio,video}.num_buffers), but xine memory usage is only around 30MB here.

It is also possible that you are experiencing a memory leak. Do you see memory 
usage increasing while xine is running?

It would also be interesting to know, what exactly is causing xine to crash. 
Could you provide a gdb backtrace?

Michael

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printk("Illegal format on cdrom.  Pester manufacturer.\n"); 
	2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/fs/isofs/inode.c