[gst-embedded] Unknown memory blocks in gstreamer runtime memory map

Jan Schmidt thaytan at mad.scientist.com
Mon Apr 14 03:54:26 PDT 2008


<quote who="Gireesh Kumar M">

>    Hi,
>     
>    I'm running GStreamer, built with CodeSourcery arm toolchain [version:
>    (CodeSourcery Sourcery G++ Lite 2007q3-51) 4.2.1], on TI's OMAP board. 
>    The runtime memory consumption (as reported by 'top' command) is 38% on a
>    128MB RAM (~48MBytes), which is very high. Verifying the memory map log
>    (using pmap), I found the presence of some un-named memory blocks of size
>    8188 KBytes which contributes major share to the 38% RAM usage (PMAP log
>    attached). Is this a GStreamer bug or a memory leak? Can anyone help me to
>    fix this?

I'd guess they're probably thread stacks. I think the default is 8MB, but
you can make it smaller, possibly by using g_thread_create_full in the right
places in GStreamer core (in gsttask.c somewhere)

J.

>    Currently I'm using the mp3 playback with the following pipeline
>    $gst-launch filesrc location=test.mp3 ! queue ! mad ! alsasink
>     
>    Any help on this is highly appreciated.
>     
>    Thank you,
>    Gireesh
>     
>     

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Jan Schmidt                                  thaytan at mad.scientist.com

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