<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <tt> </tt><tt> </tt> <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><tt>On 2016年03月13日 03:37, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marcin@saepia.net">marcin@saepia.net</a> wrote:</tt><tt> </tt></div> <blockquote cite="mid:CA+DLCvAKM6CWyoTUKKP3ca_k083JTVcDL8ZS5BQXKet2P95Fuw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div> <div><tt>Hello,</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt></div> <tt>first of all, ensure that you are checking memory correctly. I doubt if MemFree substracts memory used by cache/buffers which is occupied at the moment but can be easily freed by the system. For instance, free command shows that in the second row:</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>$ free</tt><tt> </tt><tt> total used free shared buffers cached</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Mem: 4045936 3538900 507036 10644 298020 2175820</tt><tt> </tt><tt>-/+ buffers/cache: 1065060 </tt><tt>2980876</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Swap: 1950716 7664 1943052</tt><tt> </tt></div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <tt>Thanks for your mind. Thanks, Hongbo </tt> <blockquote cite="mid:CA+DLCvAKM6CWyoTUKKP3ca_k083JTVcDL8ZS5BQXKet2P95Fuw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div><tt> </tt></div> <tt>If you still think that its GStreamer eating memory, it's likely a bug, and you have to fill a bug report.</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt></div> <tt>Marcin</tt><tt> </tt> <div> <div><tt> </tt><tt> </tt></div> </div> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><tt> </tt> <div class="gmail_quote"><tt>2016-03-12 16:38 GMT+01:00 hzhong </tt><tt><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:hongbo.zhong@ivicar.cn" target="_blank">hongbo.zhong@ivicar.cn</a>></tt><tt>:</tt><tt> </tt> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><tt>Hi</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> How to recovery the system free memory after I stop the record pipeline.</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> I am using the following step to check the system free memory and create a pipline to record the video stream.</tt><tt> </tt><tt> The system free memory will decrease after the pipline running.</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> But when I stop the pipline, The system memory could not be recovery to the origin memory state. After I delete</tt><tt> </tt><tt> the record file, The system memory can be recovery.</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> 1. X86:</tt><tt> </tt><tt> (1) Test enviroment:</tt><tt> </tt><tt> OS Enviroment: Ubuntu 14.04.4</tt><tt> </tt><tt> Gstreamer Version: GStreamer 1.6.3</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> (2) Check the free memory script(The script name is test.sh) :</tt><tt> </tt><tt> #!/bin/sh</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> while :</tt><tt> </tt><tt> do</tt><tt> </tt><tt> cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemFree</tt><tt> </tt><tt> sleep 5</tt><tt> </tt><tt> done</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> (3) Test step</tt><tt> </tt><tt> The fist step: Running the test.sh to check the system free memory</tt><tt> </tt><tt> The next step: Running the record command as the following:</tt><tt> </tt><tt> gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! video/x-raw,format=UYVY,width=640,hight=480 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=I420 ! x264enc ! avimux ! filesink location=./test.avi</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> (4) Test Result:</tt><tt> </tt><tt> When The pipeline is running, The system free memory will be decreased.</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 293064 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 231984 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 226280 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 220780 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 215340 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 222788 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 217228 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 211908 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 206048 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 200344 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 194796 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 188904 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 183448 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 177868 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 172072 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 166212 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 160756 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 166684 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 161036 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 159176 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 145444 kB</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> After I stop the pipeline(Using ctrl + c), the free memory will increase something. But it could not to recovery it.</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 200084 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 199804 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 203276 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 199844 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 200084 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 200044 kB</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> After I delete the record file(test.avi), The system free memory can be recovery.</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 199968 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 312332 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 312288 kB</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> 2. For ARM platform</tt><tt> </tt><tt> Freescale imx6q:</tt><tt> </tt><tt> gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! video/x-raw,format=UYVY,width=640,hight=480 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=I420 ! imxvpuenc_h264 ! avimux ! filesink location=./test.avi</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> Test Result:</tt><tt> </tt><tt> When the pipeline is running, The system free memory state:</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 744920 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 744600 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 736352 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 731656 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 726316 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 721024 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 715908 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 711088 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 705872 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 700204 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 695028 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 689984 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 684784 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 683872 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 683772 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 678640 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 673712 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 668380 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 663100 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 657808 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 652732 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 647516 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 642316 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 641476 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> ... ... ... ... ... ...</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252860 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252812 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252860 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252844 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252796 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252876 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252876 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252876 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252868 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252836 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252884 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252744 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252812 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252736 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252736 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252624 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252672 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252704 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 252516 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 575392 kB</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> After I delete the record file(test.avi), The free memory can be recovery to the original state.</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 743300 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 743416 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 743408 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 743220 kB</tt><tt> </tt><tt> MemFree: 743284 kB</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> Thanks,</tt><tt> </tt><tt> Hongbo</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt> <tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> _______________________________________________</tt><tt> </tt><tt> gstreamer-devel mailing list</tt><tt> </tt> <tt><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a></tt><tt> </tt> <tt><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a></tt><tt> </tt> </blockquote> </div> <tt> </tt></div> <tt> </tt> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <tt> </tt> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </pre> </blockquote> <tt> </tt> </body> </html>