Hello, On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:09 PM, 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. Are you using the latest SVN version of MPlayer? If you don't, please do, because I think a problem like that was fixed. Guillaume -- One should not give up hope on imbeciles. With a little training, you can make them into soldiers. -- Pierre Desproges
