[MPlayer-users] Mplayer will not automatically release from memory.

[Ted McCune]

System:

AMD Athlon 2600+ processor
1gig DDR RAM
Mandrake 10.1
Kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdkcustom
Nvidia Geforce 6800 graphics adaper
Mplayer version 1.0pre6-3.4.1

After playing several movies I find as many instances of Mplayer running 
in memory. Here is the output of "ps aux":
 
mooreted  7331  0.0  0.8 33624 8848 ?        S    10:46   0:00 mplayer 
/home/moo
mooreted  7333  0.0  1.0 33624 10680 ?       S    10:46   0:00 mplayer 
/home/moo
mooreted  7335  0.0  1.0 33624 10780 ?       S    10:46   0:00 mplayer 
/home/moo
mooreted  7337  0.0  1.1 33624 11824 ?       S    10:46   0:00 mplayer 
/home/moo
mooreted  7339  0.0  1.2 33664 12600 ?       S    10:46   0:00 mplayer 
/home/moo
mooreted  7341  0.0  1.3 33624 13888 ?       S    10:46   0:00 mplayer 
/home/moo

According to the Gnome System Monitor, each instance of Mplayer is using 
between 32.8 and 32.9 megabytes of memory. I have to "killall mplayer" 
to get these instances removed from memory.

How can I fix this?