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Bug 26631

Summary: mpg123 'malloc' all the memory.
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Ludovic Toinel <prospere>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Sound Team <sound>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: major    
Priority: High    
Version: 1.4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ludovic Toinel 2003-08-14 10:13:00 UTC
Package mpg123-0.59r-r2

When I launch mpg123, I can see that my cached memory grows up about 30ko per 
second, that fulls all my 256 Mo in few minutes.
When I kill mpg123, the cached memory stops to be allocated.






Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.mpg123 -Z file
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
My memory is full


I use Alsa
Comment 1 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-08-14 10:14:24 UTC
reporter filled out wrong product.  reassigning to bug wranglers.
Comment 2 J. Ellis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-08-15 21:55:17 UTC
Can't repoduce this. Can you update the bug with more information from emerge -info.

Thanks
Comment 3 Nick Hadaway 2003-08-16 16:28:35 UTC
there are some known exploits/memory leaks in 0.59s... Not so sure why this would be affecting 0.59r...
Comment 4 J. Ellis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-19 23:38:03 UTC
No feedback, no possible progress.