Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:19:19 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: An idea for prefetching swapped memory... |
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On Mon, 7 April 2003 13:48:17 +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> writes: > > > Are you sure this is working? When I'm watching a video ofer NFS on > > my machine which is idle (just X and mplayer, gnome in background, > > 256 MB of memory, 512 swap), after 30 minutes or so, the playback > > starts to jump. The cpu usage is below 10%, and it even does this > > when both X and mplayer are renice to -19 (!). So the VM swapped > > everything out and after 30 minutes it starts to swap out X oder > > mplayer itself, which is immediately swapped back in but the video > > jumps... :-( > > How much of your memory is in use? Are you sure there isn't a memory > leak somewhere in mplayer?
s/mplayer/X11/
The behaviour on my noteboot (512MB, no swap) is that X keeps grabbing more memory until either I or OOM take measures. The interesting part about it is that Mozilla and gcfclient seem to cause the memory leak - X frees up to 400MB when one of those is closed - but according to top, X owns that memory.
Anyway, I am quite sure that this is not a kernel problem, so please take lkml out of any replies. :)
Jörn
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