[gst-devel] memory usage on a small gstreamer application

Tim Muller t.i.m at zen.co.uk
Fri May 25 13:45:03 CEST 2007


Michael Horbovetz (horb) <horb at cisco.com> wrote :

>  ...
> the application is dynamically linked and is running on
> a mips processor with a 32M flash part and a 64M DDR RAM
 part.  montavista linux is the operating system and the
> root filesystem is nfs mounted.
> 
> to get the following memory numbers, i did a cat on the proc filesystem.
> would anyone like to comment on the memory numbers?  i realize the
> memory numbers are virtual numbers but seems like quite a bit of memory
> for such a small application or is this typical?

Some more information might be useful, such as:

 - the test application

 - what GStreamer version you are using

 - what GLib version you are building against

 - how you compiled GStreamer (which configure
   switches; what changes were made, if any, etc.)

 Cheers
  -Tim









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