[MPlayer-users] DVD and RAM bug?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:03:18PM +1000, How Wong wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi
> 
> System specs:
> Geforce2 mx 400
> 512MB DDR
> RH 9
> nvidia driver 4363
> kernel 2.4.20
> gcc 3.2.2
> Mplayer 0.90
> 
> Problem:
> When playing DVD the free RAM is decreasing until it is all used up.  Is 
> this normal?  It starts off about 30% in use and then reaches 100% in use.

This is perfectly normal; you just don't understand how unix works. If
you look at the "-/+ buffers/cache" line in the output of free, you'll
see that it doesn't change significantly. The system is just caching
the contents of the DVD as it's read, and that cache memory will be
freed and made available for other stuff later if it's needed.

Rich