From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 6 3:44:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36A937B407 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 03:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA24555; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 12:44:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 12:44:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200110061044.MAA24555@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lots of Linux zombies (mtvp) In-Reply-To: <200110052003.f95K3Uf99019@aldan.algebra.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-current User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.1-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mikhail Teterin wrote: > After watching some MPGs with the Linux binary-only mtvp (graphics/mtv > port) I noticed 40 zomby processes: Sorry, this is not really an answer to your question, but for playing MPEG files, I've found vlc and mplayer very useful, and in general better than mtv/mtvp. They're both in ports/graphics, too. They're opensource (i.e. no linux binaries necessary), and they even uses hardware scaling through either the xvideo extension or SDL (in ports, too), so requiring little CPU, even for fullscreen playback. (Personally I prefer mplayer. YMMV.) > root@aldan:~ (220) ps -alwwx | grep 68256 > 105 68256 1 0 96 0 0 0 - Z p1 0:00,00 (mtvp) This might be a strange idea, but have you tried to "kill -CHLD 1"? This wouldn't be a real solution, of course. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message