Re: [xine-user] Xine is eating my Mem.

[Siggi L. <si...@us...>]

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Philipp Dortmann wrote:

> After xine has run for some time and i move the mouse the playback gets j=
erky and the Menu won=C2=B4t show up right. First i tought it was an XShm v=
s. Xv problem but xine is using Xv. When i look at >top< i saw that my Syst=
em was swaping and a >ps aux< shows me why
>
> gandalf root # ps aux
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> ---cut --
> gastar   28543  9.9  7.9 113364 40884 pts/1  S    16:00   5:45 xine
> gastar   28544  0.0  7.9 113364 40884 pts/1  S    16:00   0:00 xine
[...]

> Why are there so many xine processes ? why do they all need so much memor=
y.
> I watched the numbers a bit and memory usage was growing (mem leak?)
> The Problem showed up both watching a DVD and a AVI. (the ps aux was watc=
hing LOTR DVD)

Those are not processes but threads. So xine is taking up ~11MB of your
memory, and that only _once_. (The memory is physically the same for all
those "processes".)

Try to run "top" and press Shift-M to get an impression of what's using
your memory! I doubt that you're really actively swapping, though.
That said: Yes, there are some small memleaks in xine, but you'd have to
play dozens of streams to get a significant (~5%) increase in xine's
memory usage...

Strictly speaking, there's some more memory used by xine, which should
show up at the XFree86 process that holds some of the display buffers...

> I use:
>
> Gentoo 1.4 rc4
> Xfree 4.3
> KDE 3.1.1a
> xine-lib 1_beta11
> xine-ui 0.9.20
>
> My System:
>
> Dual Celeron 500
> 512 MB
> Nvidia Geforce2 MX  (1.0.4363)
>
> Has anybody an idea what i can do ?

Yes, you could get a faster CPU (500MHz Celeron could be too slow for
DVDs, depending on the rest of your system).

Apart from that, try the usual tweaking hints:
http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq#SPEEDUP

Especially the DMA settings are worth a look.

In your case, XFree86's Xv driver may be broken. Downgrading to XFree86
4.2 and/or using NVidia's drivers may help.

Cheers,
=09Siggi