[Bug 1888558] Re: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video

2020-10-05 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for mesa (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: mesa (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1888558

[Bug 1888558] Re: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video

2020-08-06 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
As suspected, this seems to be an issue with a driver. ** Package changed: vlc (Ubuntu) => mesa (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1888558 Title: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM

[Bug 1888558] Re: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video

2020-08-04 Thread Wirawan Purwanto
@Sebastian, Here is an initial output of valgrind run--looks like I may need better setting? Please advise / give me suggestion on the switches to use for valgrind. Here is the invocation I did: $ valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=yes vlc Video.mp4 ** Attachment added: "valgrind stderr

[Bug 1888558] Re: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video

2020-08-04 Thread Wirawan Purwanto
Plot of RSS and VSIZE over time. Correction: second figure is the zoomed-in version, the time axis format should be: "dd HH:MM". ** Attachment added: "plot of vlc memory usage over time" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1888558/+attachment/5398690/+files/mem-over-time.png

[Bug 1888558] Re: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video

2020-08-04 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
What does a run with valgrind say? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1888558 Title: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video To manage notifications about

[Bug 1888558] Re: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video

2020-08-04 Thread Wirawan Purwanto
Hi folks, an update on my VLC measurement. I finally did that "vlc -vvv", please see attachments for the stderr. I don't see anything interesting there. But I did make snapshots of the vsize, rss, and the "smaps" file under the /procfs/$PID/smaps --they are also attached. I played the same video

[Bug 1888558] Re: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video

2020-08-04 Thread Wirawan Purwanto
** Attachment added: "third smaps snapshot (~20-hour mark)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1888558/+attachment/5398678/+files/smaps-1596540657-20200804T073057.txt.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1888558] Re: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video

2020-08-04 Thread Wirawan Purwanto
Hi folks, an update on my VLC measurement. I finally did that "vlc -vvv", please see attachments for the stderr. I don't see anything interesting there. But I did make snapshots of the vsize, rss, and the "smaps" file under the /procfs/$PID/smaps --they are also attached. I played the same video

[Bug 1888558] Re: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video

2020-08-04 Thread Wirawan Purwanto
** Attachment added: "first smaps snapshot (5-minute mark)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1888558/+attachment/5398676/+files/smaps-1596468720-20200803T113241.txt.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1888558] Re: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video

2020-08-04 Thread Wirawan Purwanto
** Attachment added: "second smaps snapshot (12-hour mark)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1888558/+attachment/5398677/+files/smaps-1596510832-20200803T231352.txt.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1888558] Re: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video

2020-08-04 Thread Wirawan Purwanto
** Attachment added: "stderr output of vlc (compressed)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1888558/+attachment/5398675/+files/stderr.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1888558] Re: VLC is using up to 2 GB of RAM just to play a regular 720px HD video

2020-07-23 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
This sounds like driver issue. Please provide logs using vlc -vvv from the machine experiencing high memory consumption. ** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.