[MPlayer-users] Memory Leak in mencoder

Krzysztof Duchnowski amidk75 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 13:55:13 CET 2007


Reimar Döffinger pisze:

> This is already a strong indication that the bug is probably not in
> mencoder.

> [...]
>> ==6287== LEAK SUMMARY: ==6287== definitely lost: 1,355 bytes in 12
>> blocks. ==6287== possibly lost: 46,445 bytes in 1 blocks. ==6287==
>> still reachable: 3,295,304 bytes in 3,471 blocks. ==6287==
>> suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.

> And actually this says quite clearly that mencoder leaked at most 47
> kB of memory. If course it might tell the kernel driver to do
> something that causes it to eat memory (though in my opinion that
> would be a horrible design for a driver), but unfortunately the
> valgrind info does not really help here
> :-(

In fact, Gutsy and its kernel 2.6.22-14 have a lot of bug's and for now 
isn't usable at all so I wouldn't be surprise that it's (mem leak) GG fault.

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