Mplayer not removing from memory.

mooreted · 02-28-2005, 09:29 AM

Since I have 1 gig of memory, I was surprised that my system began slowing down due to lack of memory. When I ran "ps aux" I found over 100 instances of Mplayer running. How can this be?

I am using FluxBox as my WM.

How can I prevent this behavior?

Micro420 · 02-28-2005, 02:11 PM

I also had this problem when I was using Mandrake 9.1, however, I only got it when I streamed/viewed media files in Firefox. I had to just kill it manually by hand.

mooreted · 02-28-2005, 02:40 PM

Hmmm, there must be some way to make mplayer unload automatically.

Thanks for the help.

Micro420 · 02-28-2005, 03:15 PM

Maybe if you could run your mplayer from the cosole so that we can see the output. Do you have auto-repeat on? I know one reason why my Mandrake 9.1 kept loading MPlayer in Firefox was because it kept looping media files so it kept opening up new Mplayer application. I did not know how to turn off the looping feature, and I still don't know how.

mooreted · 02-28-2005, 05:01 PM

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton (Family: 6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.

77 audio & 188 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Invalid argument
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing tia_300.wmv.
ASF file format detected.
VIDEO: [WMV2] 320x240 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dshow] DirectShow video codecs
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YUY2 IYUV UYVY YV12 YVYU I420 YVU9
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x7f)
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2)
[PP] Using codec's postprocessing, max q = 4.
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12 [zoom]
Selected video codec: [wmv8] vfm:dshow (Windows Media Video 8)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...

I played this file twice and now "ps aux" shows the file running in memory twice even though I closed Mplayer.

Videos are not looping nor set to loop.

Thanks for the help.

mooreted · 02-28-2005, 05:25 PM

I checked with top and "ps aux" top does not show an instance of mplayer running. I'm not sure I am seeing what I think I'm seeing. I'm confused.

ps aux (partial):

mooreted 6858 0.0 0.8 33568 8828 ? S 15:12 0:00 mplayer file.mpg
mooreted 6860 0.0 0.8 33568 8828 ? S 15:12 0:00 mplayer file.mpg
mooreted 6862 0.0 0.8 33568 8828 ? S 15:12 0:00 mplayer file.mpg
mooreted 6864 0.0 0.8 33568 8828 ? S 15:12 0:00 mplayer file.mpg
mooreted 6866 0.0 0.8 33568 8828 ? S 15:12 0:00 mplayer file.mpg

mooreted · 02-28-2005, 06:40 PM

I just did a complete update of my system. The behavior has stopped. Mplayer is working fine now. I guess I'll never know which process had the memory leak.

Thanks for the help everyone.