[MPlayer-users] Inactive RAM problem in OS X 10.5

[Joshua Lippai]

Yes, I am. I even checked out the latest SVN and built just now to be sure.

Josh

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Joshua Lippai <discerptor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have noticed since starting to use Mac OS X 10.5 that Mplayer (both
>> commandline compiled from SVN and "MPlayer OSX variants) that playing
>> files in MPlayer causes a certain amount (perhaps proportional to the
>> size of the file) of Memory to go into "Inactive" mode. This would be
>> fine if the memory functioned as advertised and got allocated to
>> programs that need it when "free" RAM runs out, but I find that it
>> does not get reallocated. Thus if I open several video files in a row,
>> each one adds to the "Inactive RAM" amount and at a certain point the
>> entire computer (including MPlayer, since even it can't use this
>> memory it tagged as "inactive") starts lagging because it has run out
>> free memory and cannot access the inactive memory. I was wondering if
>> anyone has found a way around this problem, and if not, whether
>> someone knows enough about OS X development to perhaps point me in the
>> right direction to look into perhaps making a patch to get MPlayer to
>> only take RAM as "active" in OS X, since this all gets released by
>> MPlayer once it quits. Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
> Are you using the latest SVN version of MPlayer? If you don't, please
> do, because I think a problem like that was fixed.
>
> Guillaume
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