hi,

i think it's mainly a memory issue,
i forgot about that memory limitation thing,
i'm running in an unlimited mode :

ulimit -a
max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited

it fairly depends on the number and the resolutions
of the videos you're playing
( and of the size of the canvas too ).

meybe, should change your memory settings??

suerte,
sevy


Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:
maybe be using pdp_yqt instead of pdp_qt?

      
this, yes, it's lighter.
    

I switched to pdp_yqt and the stream of pdp_dump remains.
 
  
I have pdp in its own thread, a [block~ 131072 8] which doesn't seem
      
to help, and memory usage set to 100 megs
    
max. 

      
it's not so much, especially for the canvas.
    

What would be good numbers? Is there a disadvantage to having it too high, as long as I can spare the memory?
If I lower the memlimit, won't it just crash all that much sooner?

  
Problem is, instead of managing the memory as I'd hoped, it just exits
      
when it goes over that limit. I am
    
trying to loop the video with pdp_qt 

      
there is a 'loop' message to pdp_qt or pdp_yqt for that purpose.
    

Yeah, what I was saying is, that I *am* using the loop message already, but I am *not* using any pdp_loop or
pdp_delay. I said this because the message memlimit passes when it closes pd is 
"WARNING: increase memory limit or decrease packet usage (i.e. pdp_loop, pdp_delay)."
And, unless they're buried in the other objects I'm using, I'm not using pdp_loop or delay.

What could be causing so many pdp_dumps? Pdp_yqt did slow the occurence of pdp_dumps down to about 3/sec from
5/sec (guesstimating), but it still quickly eats up every available byte of RAM. As the pdp_dumps roll in and
start eating memory, I use pdp_control's garbagecollect, but that only frees about 3 packets and has no
noticeable effect on the amount of memory usage.

Thanks for your patience Yves
-Ian

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