I should mention something about the inactive RAM use: it seems to jump up every time I skip forward or backward in MPlayer. Also, this behaviour manifests in every video out I've tried. Josh On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Joshua Lippai <discerptor at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed since starting to use Mac OS X 10.5 that Mplayer (both > commandline compiled from SVN and "MPlayer OSX variants) that playing > files in MPlayer causes a certain amount (perhaps proportional to the > size of the file) of Memory to go into "Inactive" mode. This would be > fine if the memory functioned as advertised and got allocated to > programs that need it when "free" RAM runs out, but I find that it > does not get reallocated. Thus if I open several video files in a row, > each one adds to the "Inactive RAM" amount and at a certain point the > entire computer (including MPlayer, since even it can't use this > memory it tagged as "inactive") starts lagging because it has run out > free memory and cannot access the inactive memory. I was wondering if > anyone has found a way around this problem, and if not, whether > someone knows enough about OS X development to perhaps point me in the > right direction to look into perhaps making a patch to get MPlayer to > only take RAM as "active" in OS X, since this all gets released by > MPlayer once it quits. Thanks in advance for any replies. > > Josh >
