High memory usage

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High memory usage

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Thanks for this bug report and the kind words that come with it.

I used the pmap tool and got a perfectly stable output, at least for the 15 
minutes I let Flowblade run:

0000000000400000   2804K r-x-- python2.7
00000000008bc000      4K r---- python2.7
00000000008bd000    468K rw--- python2.7
0000000000932000     72K rw---   [ anon ]
000000000120c000  18988K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f2730000000    132K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f2730021000  65404K -----   [ anon ]
00007f2738000000    132K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f2738021000  65404K -----   [ anon ]
00007f273fff8000  65540K rw-s- pulse-shm-1799224795
00007f2744000000    132K rw---   [ anon ]
---etc

So this issue cannot be reproduced on my system.

First I would like to find out if this is the same bug that was discussed here:

http://sourceforge.net/p/mlt/bugs/221/

This bug has been fixed in MLT. To test if this fixes your issue too, you can 
compile and install the repository version MLT.

Below is URL to page that has a script that builds and installs repository 
versions of both Flowblade and MLT into your home folder. You can remove them 
just by deleting the folder to continue using your installed version. The 
dependency list may not be up to date, but it will get you started. 

http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/BuildScripts

Original comment by [email protected] on 3 Feb 2015 at 9:07

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Thank you very much for your feedback and help!

The MLT-bugreport describes indeed a very similar problem, Fortunately in my 
case the memory-usage was nowhere increasing so extremely rapidly (about 
60MB/s) as in the bugreport, although the result was the same - the process 
consumed all the available memory and swap. 

The buildscript for MLT and Flowblade worked fine after some small adjustments:

gerhard@paisley:~/flowblade/20150204$ ./start-flowblade
FLOWBLADE MOVIE EDITOR 0.17 repository/dev
---------------------------
Launch script dir: /home/gerhard/flowblade/20150204/flowblade-trunk
Running from filesystem...
MLT found, version: 0.9.3
...

and after almost half an hour everything, especially the memory-usage seems to 
be running "under normal conditions". I guess I can confirm now that using MLT 
0.9.3 instead of 0.9.2 has been the solution for the problem here.

Thanks again! 

Original comment by [email protected] on 4 Feb 2015 at 1:58