Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757436Ab1CNWaG (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:30:06 -0400 Received: from smtp10.mail.sp.isp-net.nl ([217.149.192.65]:51759 "EHLO smtp10.mail.sp.isp-net.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757361Ab1CNWaF (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:30:05 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 3330 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:30:04 EDT Message-ID: <4D7E89E7.3080505@xmsnet.nl> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:34:31 +0100 From: Hans de Bruin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101125 Thunderbird/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.38-rc echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches repairs mplayer distortions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Language-Detected: en X-Spam-Scanned: InterNLnet Mail Scan System V2.03 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 870 Lines: 21 Since the start of the start of 2.6.38-rc I sporadic have problems with mplayer. A mpeg stream sometimes gets distorted when mplayer starts. An example is at http://www.xs4all.nl/~bruinjm/mplayer.png . I do not know how to trigger the behaviour, so bissecting is not possible. Since yesterday however I found a way to 'repair' mplayer: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches This repairs mplayer while it is running. My latop is runs on nfsroot, and the mpegstreams are payed over nfs or http. I can have two instances of mplayer running the same mpeg stream over nfs or http with only one instance distorded. -- Hans -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/