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It's crashing my entire machine, there's nothing I can do! Chippy, Use the script about 3 posts above this one. It will limit the RAM usage of vlc and prevent it from crashing your machine. If you have less than 1GB RAM, try limiting VLC to 512mb or so. That way VLC will crash but your machine will...

Ok, I'm yet to get any more useful debugging data.

As a quick fix, to prevent VLC from taking your machine away with it, I've got a little bash script that'll limit the ram usage of VLC to 1GB. Original Post: Limiting VLC Memory Usage

Ok,

I'll run it under gdb and see if I can any useful information out of it before this laptop dies :-)

Andy

Rémi, I'm only killing VLC at the point where it is leaking memory at such a rate that it'll eat the 6GB in this machine in a matter of seconds. Leaving VLC running without killing it brings this machine to a standstill leaving no option but to reboot. Can you think of a different way to get any use...

Killing with -SIGXCPU appears to have given something more useful.

Full debug log from valgrind at https://www.andymillar.co.uk/temp/vlc.v ... 949.log.gz

I hope this helps.

Andy

+1 for the memory leak, whilst streaming media from di.fm. Valgrind does, unfortunately, make VLC run like a dog, but here's the useful end of the log: --00:00:42:46.352 4074-- memcheck GC: 65536 nodes, 59624 survivors ( 90.9%) --00:00:42:46.352 4074-- memcheck GC: increase table size to 131072 --00...