[MPlayer-users] mplayer frosen after 5 hours of playing

[Konrad Materka]

Dnia 18-04-2005, pon o godzinie 14:42 -0400, Rich Felker napisał(a):
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:15:08PM +0200, Konrad Materka wrote:
> > Dnia 18-04-2005, pon o godzinie 09:00 -0700, RC napisa?(a):
> > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:53:44 +0200
> > > "Maxipoint Rep Office" <maxipoint at st.htnet.hr> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > After 5-6 hours of playing PC was be frosen.. mplayer process is on
> > > > 99% and video stay stop on TV screen, and I must restart PC
> > > 
> > > First off, are you running mplayer as root?  If you are, you shouldn't
> > > be (unless you have a very good reason to require it).  If you're not,
> > > then it's obviously not a problem with mplayer, as no non-root program
> > > should be able to crash a system.
> > 
> > What about memory leaks? I got hangs after 2 hours of movie using
> > gmplayer (pre6). Maybe he had the same problem?
> 
> A memory leak in a userspace program cannot crash the system. This is
> not windows...
Hmm, not crash, but make system extremely slow. I know this from my
experience, that 20 kb of free memory (SWAP of course, "real" memory was
filled with crap) can make system unusable. Kernel 2.6. Debian. Amen.

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With kindest regards:
Konrad Materka