[vlc] Re: VLC VoD Server Memory Leak

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le vendredi 26 janvier 2007 17:41, Toufik Ahmed a écrit :
> >> At the VLC VoD server, I'm detecting some memory Leak. I lost
> >> about 500KB for 24 hours of running.
> >
> > 500KB is less than VLC typical I/O buffer. It is insignificant, and
> > might in fact not be a leak at all.
>
> Yes, it was 500 KB for one VoD and for one client... the problem
> arises with many client...
>
> Another things  is that I've noticed that when I do Start/Stop on the
> VLC player, there was a VLC memory leak at the VoD server side... Are
> you aware of this problem (I thought that it was a module start/stop
> problem ??)
>
> my problem is that my VLC VoD server is running under PowerPC machine
> -32MB memory, with limited storage space.. and there was no program
> on how to debug this memory leak... Any help is welcomed

Use valgrind then. You can do it on a regular all-purpose PC since 
memleaks tend to be very portable.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/
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