hi, Daniel James Laird schrieb: > All, > > I am new to Gstreamer but have been impressed at the ease with which I got it running on my embedded platform. I now have A/V decode running on my embedded decoders and using GStreamers input-selectors/queues and demux+filesrc etc to make this happen. > > However, the system I am developing on has < 64 mb RAM. Once the system starts up and runs I am left with 20MB odd for applications. > Once I start up Gstreamer it really seems to eat memory with it using nearly all the 18-20MB to run. > > Some of this is due to my A/V queue lengths. > But a lot of it seems to be untraceable. GStreamer uses GLib and with that GSlice. You might not see the usage easily with normal tools then. You can use env-vars like G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly to make things more trackable. > > My questions are: > 1. Any hints on tracking where memory has gone. > 2. Does Gstreamer have a memory manager where I could limit what it can use (much like Java allows) so that I could say heres 10MB no more > 3. Is anyone else running on embedded systems finding similar issues? > > I suspect I am missing some options, my design choices might be floored or many other reasons so I really would appreciate any hints or tips for this. In the mean time calling free and checking calls to malloc (g_malloc) seems the only way forward We run tests under valrind to ensure we don't leak (too much). Do you run into issues with specific use cases, or already after gst_init(). Stefan > > Many thanks > Daniel Laird > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Gstreamer-embedded mailing list > Gstreamer-embedded at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-embedded
