Comment 38 for bug 743323

I have had the same thing happen, sometimes, with Dragon. It seems to be
pulse audio related.

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:31 AM, 'lade phillips
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> ihave this problem and not just vlc, also when playing videos with both
> totem and banshee, machine freezes then restart
> i just installed ubuntu 11.04 i use a hp mini 2133. 1gb ram...
> i dint have this problem on ubuntu 10.10
>
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> of a duplicate bug (775129).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/743323
>
> Title:
> vlc memory leak
>
> Status in VLC media player:
> Fix Released
> Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in “vlc” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: vlc
>
> While watching a macromedia flash video, when i paused the video and
> restarted it, I've got a memory leak in vlc (the process vlc takes the
> whole memory in 10 secondes).
>
> Also, in some case, when the process vlc was killed by the kernel and
> when i retrieve the control of my pc, compiz was disabled while it was
> enabled before the memory leak.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: vlc 1.0.6-1ubuntu1.5
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-30.59-generic 2.6.32.29+drm33.13
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-30-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Sat Mar 26 22:23:17 2011
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64
> (20100419.1)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=fr_FR.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: vlc
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Phil Hughes
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