Public bug reported:
When I watch movie on VLC memory usage starts growing until memory is
full and then oom killer kills some of processes or computer eventually
freezes or become very slow (due to usage of swap).
Since none of current processes have so high memory usage, I have
concluded that it had to be inside kernel. And some of kern.log entries
suggest that is the video memory.
I can reproduce this bug every time.
1. Open htop and sort processes based on memory usage
2. Start watching movie in VLC
3. Memory usage keeps growing (I have 8GB of RAM, of which initially only 1.1
GB is used), but none of processes has such huge memory usage
4. I pause the player, memory usage stops growing
5. I quit VLC player, memory gets released.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: vlc 2.2.2-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-36.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-36-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: sep4_0 socperf2_0 pax
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sun Sep 4 21:29:20 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-13 (964 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-09-03 (1 days ago)
** Affects: vlc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
** Attachment added: "vlc.tar.gz"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1620110/+attachment/4734332/+files/vlc.tar.gz
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