Re: [clutter] Clutter-gst performance

From: Gideon de Kok <gideon@nyarna.com>
Date: Sat Mar 10 2007 - 17:44:13 EST

Hi,

> Le samedi 10 mars 2007 à 19:31 +0000, Matthew Allum a écrit :
> > Hi;
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 00:41 -0500, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote:
> > >
> > > I just tried Clutter-0.2.1, and its performance is much better than the
> > > previous one. On my 5200fx, the video is now more fluid than what I had
> > > on my 7600gs+clutter-0.2.0.
> >
> > Cool.
> >
> > >
> > > There is one problem I seem to encounter, when playing back long video
> > > files in my application, my computer will start to swap after 30
> > > minutes. I haven't tried yet to reproduce it with the video-player
> > > demo, but since I almost ripped it off to build mine... there aren't
> > > much differences. Have you experienced the same?
> > >
> >
> > That sounds pretty much like a memory leak in your application Im afraid
> > (especially if its not happening with the demo player). Though of course
> > it could also be some other part of clutter leaking in your app.
>
> I was able to reproduce it with the video-player example. I have 20% of
> free mem at startup, and after watching about 30 mins of a file, 100% of
> memory is used. There is a memory leak but it is on a very slow ramp.
>
> > Have you tried running it through memprof/valgrind to see if it shows
> > anything ?
>
> memprof did not start my app. I'm new to it, but I'll have a look at it for
> my memory leaks. Thanks for pointing it to me.

It sounds more like a GStreamaer / PixBuf memory leak to me...
Are you sure it is clutter which is leaking the memory?
 
-- Gideon
 * http://gideon.nyarna.com

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