hello,
thanks for the answer.
my sytem :
macbook air 2012
core i5 1,8 ghz
8gb ram
OSX 10.8.2

pd-extended (copyed from console )
[import] $Revision: 1.2 $
    [import] is still in development, the interface could change!
    compiled against Pd version 0.42.5
libdir loader $Revision: 1.8 $
    compiled on Sep 22 2010 at 03:41:35
    compiled against Pd version 0.42.5.extended
GEM: Graphics Environment for Multimedia
GEM: ver: 0.92.3
GEM: compiled: Sep 22 2010
GEM: maintained by IOhannes m zmoelnig
GEM: Authors :    Mark Danks (original version)
GEM:        Chris Clepper
GEM:        Cyrille Henry
GEM:        IOhannes m zmoelnig
GEM: with help by Guenter Geiger, Daniel Heckenberg, James Tittle, Hans-Christop Steiner, et al.
GEM: found a bug? miss a feature? please report it:
GEM:     homepage http://gem.iem.at/
GEM:     bug-tracker http://sourceforge.net/projects/pd-gem/
GEM:     mailing-list http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/gem-dev/
GEM: compiled for SIMD architecture: SSE2 MMX
GEM: using SSE2 optimization

i dont know what video backend means, i have quicktime and vlc installed, for output i use the Macbook screen.

greetings
steffen

IOhannes m zmoelnig
December 13, 2012 4:21 PM
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could you please provide more information about your system?
e.g.
which operating system?
which version of Gem (i don't track which version of Gem is included
in which version of PdX)?
which video-backends are installed / are you using?

you can find most of this information in the Pd-Console.


if you are using w32, there is a known file-handle leak (but not a
memory leak!) which is unfixable with Pd<=0.43.

fgamd
IOhannes
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Steffen Kraska
December 13, 2012 3:37 PM
Hello,
i am currently working on a patch that,
loads random movie samples into gemwin via pix_film. i reconized memory related crashes,
that seem to originate in a memory leak in pix_film.
i could reproduce the error with the pix_film helpfile. If you look at pd's used memory,
it increases everytime you load a new file and it does not flush, or get empty again.
so my pd crashes arround 3GB of ram used
my system is a mba 2012 with 8gb ram. pd is 0.42.5 extended (standart download from the website).
is there some way to unload the movie, or clear the memory ?
any help would be apreciated.
greetings
steffen