Are you guys absolutely and positively sure you don't have player memory leak? I listened for some 30 tunes (perhaps with an intervening sync), and the player developed this behaviour:

VM: killing process player

buffermem       : 249856

page_cache_size : 374

nr_free_pages   : 61

num_physpages   : 3072

Restored terminal settings

Remounting first music partition read-only

Remounting second music partition read-only

No secondary hard disk

Abnormal player termination

Player received signal 9

Starting player

empeg-car 2.00-beta3 2001/10/17.

3bd099da DHCP name = lo

3bd099da DHCP index = 1

3bd099da DHCP flags = 0x8

3bd099da DHCP addr  = 0.0.0.0

3bd099da DHCP bcast = 0.0.0.0

3bd099da DHCP mask  = 0.0.0.0

3bd099da DHCP name = eth0

3bd099da DHCP index = 2

3bd099da DHCP flags = 0x1043

3bd099da DHCP addr  = 192.168.0.29

3bd099da DHCP bcast = 192.168.0.255

3bd099da DHCP mask  = 255.255.255.0

3bd099da DHCP Adding interface eth0

Prolux 4 empeg car - 1.1090 Oct 17 2001

Vcb: 0x405d5000

E !! mp3_decoder.cpp    1052: Failed to seek to offset 1620419, error=0xc0044000

E !! mp3_decoder.cpp    1047: Failed to find valid sync after seeking to offset 1620419, error=0xc0044000

etc every few seconds. I advanced to the next file: it kept restarting. I rebooted the player: the problem cured. (The database conversion went without a hitch prior to the first sync.)

OOPS: Can't be simple memory leak, as it persists over player restarts. Do you exaust some other resource?

I will leave it play for an hour or so to see what happens.

Update: Nothing so far... I will let it play overnight.

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green

Edited by bonzi on 18/10/01 09:58 PM.