xfmedia 0.3.0 released

[roger]

Hi guys,

Please let me add "mon grain de sel" into this debate about memory use.

I spent a few years working with an international company that makes money 
with developing - and selling (but that wasn't part of my contribution:)) - 
systems monitoring software for several platforms, including 6 flavours of 
Unices as well as Linux.
This is my shot (you are free to believe it or not): don't blindly trust 
memory-related figures provided by monitoring tools! Actually memory use is 
pretty difficult to work out... and probably always wrongly reported!

Cheers,
Roger

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 05:40 am, groundhog3000 wrote:
> Here is the issue,
>
> >the gui part:
> >olivleh1 at kartoffel olivleh1> ps auxww | grep mpla
> >olivleh1 36123 18.3  1.8 20928 11648  p1  S+    4:55PM   0:00.97 gmplayer
> >(mplayer)
> >
> >
> >the video part:
> >olivleh1 36128  1.8  3.1 29224 20212  p1  S+    4:55PM   0:00.17 gmplayer
> >(mplayer)
> >
> >but i'm playing an mpg with xfmedia.
> >Playing an mp3 to compare teapots with teapots:
> >
> >audio part:
> >olivleh1 36136  0.0  2.3 29256 15084  p1  S+    4:57PM   0:00.08 gmplayer
> >(mplayer)
> >
> >Makes 26 MB (gui+audio)
> >
> >And I don't see how the "fully capable" feature should result in a bigger
> >memory usage. If I don't play an divx or whatever, just an mp3, then
> >nothing has to be in my memory except mp3+gui.
>
> Beep-Media-Player uses almost no system resources at all.
> Mplayer uses a bit more, but not much.
> It _appears_ as if xfmedia loads all the xine libs before they are needed,
> which leads to a large memory footprint.  Could be a modularization
> problem ...
> but since I haven't seen the code, I don't know.
>
> Just a thought,
> Gabe
>
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