[vlc-devel] [PATCH] access: dvb: Realloc block to actually used size.

[Julian Scheel]

Am 24.09.2013 11:15, schrieb Rémi Denis-Courmont:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:41:30 +0200, Julian Scheel <julian at jusst.de> wrote:
>> What would you suggest to overcome the issue?
>
> All I suggest is that it is a generic performance problem with stream
> buffering and that hacking the DVB access won't resolve it.
>
>>
>>> I think the real problem is that stream buffering is not working the
> way
>>> it should. Similar issues have also plagued UDP and HTTP at least.
>>
>> UDP input does the same realloc.
>
> ...which caused packet loss.
>

The realloc caused packet loss? Why that? I see that a too small buffer 
size would cause packet loss, but not why the realloc does cause packet 
loss? Except if the system would be under 100% load.