[gst-devel] httpsrc with bad URL: while(1) { malloc(); };

[Michael Rothwell]

On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 15:52, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> 
> 0.4.0 httpsrc seems to eat a lot of memory. When doing this to test my
> installation ...
> 
> gst-launch httpsrc location=http://kronk/dukes.mp3 ! mad ! osssink

Addendum: even with the URL right, gst-launch gets selected for
termination by the OOM killer, after it reaches some very large size.
The entire test track played, and then gst-launch got greedy.

While playing, gst-launch consumes 2460 KB -- no more, no less. When the
track ends, it then rapidly bloats to multi-hundreds of megabytes. It
was 181MB when I killed it a few seconds after the track ended. The OOM
killer probably won't kick in on my PC (256MB phys, 512MB swap) until
gst-launch reaches around 500MB (I currently have 150MB free, 323MB swap
free).



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