Phonon memory usage

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Leo Spalteholz <leo.spalteholz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I've got a really simple little app that uses phonon to play an
>  internet radio stream and show past song titles on a timeline.  This
>  app uses delayed initialization of phonon (creates Phonon::MediaObject
>  when I hit play.  That's basically straight out of the phonon
>  example).  Before initializing phonon, exmap reports an effective
>  resident size of about 3MB. After hitting play, exmap reports
>  effective resident size of 28MB, with ~10000k in anon and ~8000 in
>  heap allocations.  Now I realize that some buffering is unavoidable,
>  but +25MB for handling an audio stream seems quite excessive.  Is this
>  typical or is it just an issue on my machine?

It's xine's fault, it allocates a bunch of stuff only used for video
playing regardless of video being played or not. The next version of
Xine should mostly fix this issue or try out phonon-gstreamer.

Ian