The bug is fixed now, so I don't really get what you are ranting about. It would certainly be nice if Ubuntu had a better QA for VLC. Then again, while that leaves much to be desired, it is far better than on practically any OS (except perhaps Gentoo and Debian). I can assure you that Microsoft and Apple don't do any QA for VLC on Windows and MacOS respectively, nor do the other commercial Linux distributions. And in my experience, Windows will crash much the same as Linux in case of intensive memory swapping.
Sure, there could be safety nets: a per-process memory size limit could be enforced by default, or the size of the swap could maybe be smaller, or the Linux elevators should deal with this kind of load better. But this is probably not the right venue to discuss this: this bug does not have visibility to the people who could potentially address this general memory starvation problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/743323 Title: vlc memory leak To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/vlc/+bug/743323/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
