[gst-devel] Memory usage is increasing Gstreamer testing

[Marco Ballesio]

Hi,

the first idea coming to my mind is that the pipeline(s) you're using are
not set to NULL state after terminating the communication and/or you're
re-instantiating anew pipeline for each call.. is it possible?

Regards

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Parveen Kumar Jain
<parveen.jain at one97.net>wrote:

> Hi Stefan,
>   Just to tell you that I don't create all these thread from own
> application.For every call I create two threads so in total I create a
> thread pool of 80 at the start of the application, and don't
> increase/decrease it any further.But I see all these threads(around 600 more
> threads apart from what I created) automatically created by Gstreamer
> itself.
>   Infact, I am also looking for ways where I can control these no. of
> threads creation in my own way.As I understand creating so many threads in a
> Quadcore system just increases the load of scheduling without adding
> anything significant efficiency to system.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Parveen Jain
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de>wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> Am 29.10.2010 15:16, schrieb Pearveen Kumar Jain:
>>
>> > Hi All,
>> >   I am using Gstreamer for one of my bulk call video calling
>> application, using
>> > sip as my signalling part.I tried to make around 60 simulative video
>> calls
>> > without much of the problem on a IBM server(4 GB RAM,Intel
>> QuadCore,Linux 64 bit).
>> >   But somehow, after around 15-17 hours of testing, I see that "free
>> memory"
>> > left in the system is only 300 -400 MB, which initially was around 2.5
>> GB. From
>> > "process id details" I can see that there is not much increase of
>> "RESIDENT" and
>> > "VIRTUAL" memory usage in my "application process".
>> > Can any one please comment/help on this behavior of system ? why overall
>> system
>> > memory is increasing  ?
>> > At this kind of video OBD load, I had seen that Gstreamer creates around
>> 600-700
>> > threads.Can it be a source of this problem?
>>
>> If the threads are 'leaked' (never join) it could. Can you use valgrind
>> --tool=memcehck ... to check?
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>> >
>> > Best Regards,
>> > Parveen Jain
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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