Yep! Sounds like a good idea... If anyone is ready to work on this, I am ready to help!
Miha Dne 24.12.2006 (ned) ob 10:11 -0500 je Scott C. Frase zapisal(a): > Miha, > I've noticed similar issues. Perhaps the coders can give us advice on > composing a proper bug report for memory leaks? In other words, which > programs should we run to capture information that will help them debug > the issue? Will gdb suffice or should we be sending output from some > other debug program? > > scott > > On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 22:59 +0900, Miha Kitič wrote: > > While comparing the latest SVN to r827 I noticed another interesting > > feature - that is, the latest SVN likes memory a lot. > > > > I loaded an MPEG clip and rendered it a couple of times (same > > settings, > > same clip, same everything). Each rendering occupied more and more > > memory. After rendering it a couple of times the entire memory of my > > computer was used up (mem + swap = 1GB). Soon after that Cinelerra > > either crashed or the rendering got stuck. > > > > When I tried the same thing on r827, this didn't happen. Cinelerra > > occupied app. 150Mb of memory and it didn't take more no matter how > > many > > times I rendered. > > > > So I'd say that in the latest SVN something is eating-up memory. > > Is it worth filling a bug on this issue? > > > > All the best! > > > > Miha > > > > P.S. Looks like the recent versions of Cinelerra use some kind of > > buffer > > where they store the movie material. That's nice, because in this way > > rendering & playback are faster. However after the rendering is done, > > that buffer doesn't get cleaned up (or so it seems). It would be also > > nice if such buffering could be turned off or in some way limited (for > > low-end machine users - like me :) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cinelerra mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
