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June 14, 2004
Not Kino leakage
Fabio explained to me today that Linux caches very aggressively, so what I'm seeing is the kernel filling up the pages in memory with digital video. The content in cache doesn't go away because the kernel doesn't flush it once it's loaded, until it's displaced by another application.
I'm not sure I understand why things slow down later. Maybe it has something to do with how the kernel takes care of a pretty large number of pages in cache.
If I live to be 1000, I promise to read the kernel source before I die...
Posted by Mark at June 14, 2004 09:22 PM