[x265] How does x265 handle the memory allocation?

[Steve Borho]

On 08/04, fangzhen wrote:
> Hi all, I am a video encoder developer. And X265 is a fantastic
> implementation of HEVC. I am studying it right now.  During this
> process, I find a very interesting situation.  I use some large
> resolution sequences to test x265, such as 2560x1600. If the memory is
> sufficient, x265 will get about 1GB memory. Howerver, if more programs
> are running and the left memory is less than 1GB, x265 will still run
> normally and use the left memory. Here is the question, in my opinion,
> if the memory is not enough, some program will crash, so how x265 do
> that? How x265 handle the memory allocation adaptively?

We're not doing anything special about allocating memory, my guess is
that the O/S is simply paging away your other applications to make room
for x265

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Steve Borho