I have had this happen to me before. I am not sure what caused it because the OOM killer caught the process before I could figure out too much. This was on Lucid I think.
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I have had this happen to me before. I am not sure what caused it because the OOM killer caught the process before I could figure out too much. This was on Lucid I think.
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You use skins? I have noticed that some skins can make the computer freeze for a bit. I have no idea why though.
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Re: Anyone else noticing huge VLC memory leak?
I have the same issue in Lucid since VLC got updated from 1.1.7 to 1.1.8.
Ocassionally VLC starts using up to 99% memory, resulting in an unstable system.
Since the frequency of those memory leaks seems to be rising,
i use Mplayer as a part-time solution until VLC will be fixed.
Alternately one could compile VLC 1.1.7 manually.
Last edited by Myone; April 6th, 2011 at 07:22 PM.
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Yes, happened to me a few times on Ubuntu 11.04 and thought it was due to something else. And few moments ago the same happened to me on Fedora 14 x64 when I was using nothing but VLC 1.1.8. So it's definitely VLC 1.1.8 which is causing it.
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I actually just checked and I'm only running 1.1.4, I suppose that's the default in Maverick. Perhaps fixed and then reintroduced in 1.1.8? Then again, I've yet to have the problem again. Though I haven't had the need to skip through a video frequently recently.
EDIT: I just tried to reproduce it using a few videos and I couldn't. These things tend to come and go for me which is why I never bother searching for a fix.
Last edited by akand074; April 7th, 2011 at 10:34 PM.
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EDIT 10-04-2011: Still not fixed, unfortunately.
Last edited by Myone; April 10th, 2011 at 03:02 PM.
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I'd suggest that you'd better use mplayer.
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Just in case some VLC devs run into this, I'd like to add a +1 here for VLC memory leak on X86_64 Natty Beta. I added some MP3s to a playlist and when it got to a third song during playback, my machine with 6 GB of RAM slowed to the point where my mouse cursor was unresponsive. htop revealed 2 vlc processes that were using 7 GB of ram and swap was being used.
VLC kicks ***. Many thanks for great, free software.
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I am pretty sure this is an isolated and probably resolved issue.Originally Posted by hellslinger
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Been having the exact same problem, also using 64bit natty.
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