[gst-embedded] Memoyr leak on filesrc

[Michael Smith]

This is completely normal, and not a memory leak, or anything to be
concerned about at all.

The kernel reads in data from disk and buffers it in memory when an
application (such as gst-launch) reads from a file. It doesn't throw
this data away immediately afterwards - it'll free it if there's other
data it wants to keep in the buffer cache instead, or if there's
memory pressure from other things.

The big hint here is that even after you terminate gst-launch (with
ctrl-c) the memory is still being used - this means it couldn't
possibly be a bug in the application.

Mike


2010/3/3 Yang Felix <felixyang_tw at hotmail.com>:
> Dear all:
>        I use the following to test the filesrc:
>
> gst-launch filesrc location =./hd1.mpg ! filesink location =./testfile
>
> before executing, the memory is
> # free
>                        total         used         free       shared
> buffers
>   Mem:       254692        38368       216324            0           76
>  Swap:            0            0      &n bsp;     0
> Total:       254692        38368       216324
>
>
> after executing, the memory is
>
>                  total         used         free       shared      buffers
>   Mem:       254692       249068         5624            0           72
>  Swap:            0            0        &n bsp;   0
> Total:       254692       249068         5624
>
>
>
> The size of hd1.mpg  is 388271324 bytes
> filesrc version is  0.10.25
>
> Even I use control-c to stop, the free memeory is gone.
>
> Can anyone help me? Thanks!
>
>
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