<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Maybe it's writing/logging something to a tmpfs folder (like /tmp)<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">--<br>Rabin</span></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 August 2016 at 16:43, Shlomi Fish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shlomif@gmail.com" target="_blank">shlomif@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Shlomi Fish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shlomif@gmail.com" target="_blank">shlomif@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi all!<br><br></div>I reported a bug in VLC earlier today about it causing increasing total RAM consumption:<br><br><a href="https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/17241" target="_blank">https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/17241</a><br><br></div>However, the strange thing is when it happens, the %MEM usage of the system increases, but I don't see it in htop/top (as root)'s individual processes' RAM consumption. And the memory gets freed after I quit VLC Player. <br><br>Why? How is it possible? Where does all the memory go? <br clear="all"><div><div><div><br></div><div>I'm on mageia v6 x86-64 with :<br><br>shlomif@telaviv1:~$ uname -a<br>Linux <a href="http://telaviv1.shlomifish.org" target="_blank">telaviv1.shlomifish.org</a> 4.7.0-desktop-2.mga6 #1 SMP Sat Jul 30 21:54:30 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<br><br></div><div>Is this a bug somewhere? Any insights will be appreciated.<br><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>One update is that I discovered that the VLC process's "VIRT" column in htop continuously increases while it is exhibiting this problem while the rest of the memory-related columns (including the percentage) remain the same.<br></div><div><br> M_SIZE (VIRT)<br> The size of the virtual memory of the process.<br><br><br></div><div>Thanks to someone on Freenode for the tip.<br><br clear="all"></div></div><span class="">-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Shlomi Fish <a href="http://www.shlomifish.org/" target="_blank">http://www.shlomifish.org/</a><br><br>You can never truly appreciate The Gilmore Girls until you've watched it in the original Klingon.<br><br>Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - <a href="http://shlom.in/reply" target="_blank">http://shlom.in/reply</a> .<br></div></div></div></div>
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