GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 610539
screencast recording fills up my memory really fast
Last modified: 2012-01-10 07:52:57 UTC
GNOME Shell from the jhbuild script. Intel Core2 Quad CPU (Q9300 @ 2.50GHz) 3.9 GiB of RAM 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) Running at 1920x1200 Recording at 15 or 25 fps My 4 GB of memory fill up within a minute of recording with the shell. This is pretty dangerous.
this was fixed by switching from theora to webm *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 632595 ***
I have the same problem with webm CPU Q6600 6 GB RAM 15 fps desktop at 1680x1050 gnome-shell 3.2.1 (archlinux) it take 3-4 mins (depending screencast) to go to the end of my 6GB of memory. and worst : the memory is not released after. i I launch 4 different screencasts of 1 min, memory of gnome-shell goes to 6 gb. i need to alt-f2 -> r to back to normal memory. my system hangs if I go to the limit of my memory and i often need to reboot (i dont use swap with my 6b ram) . after my system goes to memory limit (6 GB) : dconf-service is running and use many IO and my system hangs , i can save it by ctrl alt f1 (very long) and login (take a while) and kill shellrecordersrc. the problem occurs because the memory is not freed at the end of the shellrecordersrc process and during the process. i have always seen this problem since i use gnome-shell