Maybe it's writing/logging something to a tmpfs folder (like /tmp)
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Rabin
On 3 August 2016 at 16:43, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I reported a bug in VLC earlier today about it
Hi all,
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I reported a bug in VLC earlier today about it causing increasing total
> RAM consumption:
>
> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/17241
>
> However, the strange thing is when it happens, the %MEM usage
Hi E. S.,
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:37 PM, E.S. Rosenberg
wrote:
> This is just a hunch but I think filesystem caching is not counted
> towards a process' memory usage, so if you are playing a large movie a
> large chunk (or the whole file) may be kept in memory by the
This is just a hunch but I think filesystem caching is not counted
towards a process' memory usage, so if you are playing a large movie a
large chunk (or the whole file) may be kept in memory by the
filesystem driver while being memory that is 'available' for immediate
freeing it is counted as