From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryakt-0003k0-1l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:14:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEE15E079B; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:14:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7212EE0949 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:13:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-78-35-171-69.netcologne.de [78.35.171.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A8583DC04C for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:13:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:13:04 +0100 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs Message-ID: <20120218041304.54213987@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20120216162948.7eea6070@weird.wonkology.org> <20120216174934.3cdc3a2d@weird.wonkology.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9cfe9e9d-feb5-40dd-9540-ce58776f784f X-Archives-Hash: f11e0d8039ba3202a7b0c66793514b0c Paul Hartman writes: > I wonder if you copy the movie to /dev/shm first (so disk I/O is not > an issue) does it still have problems? At least this can potentially > eliminate disk I/O as the cause if something else weird is going on. > :) Yes, this helps. As does copying the movie to another partition than that on which I to the I/O with my dd if=/dev/zero of= command. If I dd to this partition, tough, it happens again. > For the problem of massive amounts of RAM consumed, that's strange. It's been so for years... but with 16 G of RAM it's no longer an issue. Well, unless this weird problem happened wth parallel emerges on tmpfs. It doesn't happen every time though. > Are you compiling debug symbols? That can make the RAM usage (in > linking especially) explode... No. I sometimes enable it, but only when I hunt a bug and want to produce better bug reports. And even if the emerge would need very much memory, shouldn't this be taken from the 8 G of caches being used, instead of starting to swap? Wonko