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stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

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Audacious 2.2 crash with 8000+ songs playlist

Hi,

I have a problem with Audacious: it seems to eat all memory when I create a big playlist… 600 songs are ok but 8000 are not! If I run 'top' I can see the "buffers" value increasing up to several hundreds MB, then it decreases and the swap usage increases in turn, until the point when there is no more available memory.

Then either the system freezes (got that with the "pentium-m" kernel from AUR) or Audacious quits (with the standard Arch kernel).

The reason I'm posting here is, it looks like an upstream bug but there's nothing about it on the Audacious bug tracker and forum, and there people say it's working fine with 10000+ songs playlists…

I have 1GB RAM and 600MB swap. Swap is empty when I launch Audacious, so it's eating at least 600MB. My music files are on an NTFS partition.

Any thought about this problem? Should I file a bug report on the Arch or Audacious bugtracker?
Thanks!

brebs

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Re: Audacious 2.2 crash with 8000+ songs playlist

I suggest you try Fedora's patches:  for audacious and audacious-plugins.

They are inside the .src.rpm files - open them using e.g. file-roller.

stqn

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Re: Audacious 2.2 crash with 8000+ songs playlist

Thanks, I didn't see anything about my problem in the changelog though, apart from maybe the scrobbler bug thing… But I don't think that's it.