"Vincent Meyer, MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I noticed this over the weekend. When using XMMS to play MP3s after 5-10 > minutes the machine would hard freeze. This morning I decided to do a little > digging to see if I could find out why. > > Running top in a console windows, while playing music with XMMS causes the > available memory decrease at a fairly steady rate. Pausing or stopping the > playback stops the decrease in memory. Closing XMMS recovers the memory.
Hum, can't reproduce here. Any chance you're using mp3's with strange/special bitrates? > Running out of memory locks up the machine. Certainly doesn't look good. The kernel should recover from such a situation (either the application would segfault when there is no more memory (because results of malloc's are not well checked) or starting with 2.4 the OEM killer kills chosen processes). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
