[gst-devel] Memory usage is increasing Gstreamer testing

[Stefan Kost]

hi,

Am 29.10.2010 15:16, schrieb Parveen 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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