This has been happening pretty frequently to me as well. Ubuntu 11.04 x64. I've got 8GB of RAM in this system, and it normally sits on ~2.5GB used.
When VLC decides to go crazy the RAM shoots up to 100% usage [very quickly], and then my swap space starts getting eaten up as well. If the swap space fills up completely, then the whole system basically becomes completely unresponsive, and I need to do a hard reset in order to get it running again. If I can catch it before that happens though, and manage to kill the VLC process, then my memory usage drops back to normal, but any swap space that's been eaten up stays like that until the next time I reboot. I've basically had to give up on using VLC until this gets resolved ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/743323 Title: vlc memory leak -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
