On Thursday, June 09, 2011 02:14:54 AM Bart Cerneels <bart.cerne...@kde.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 20:23, Jerome Yuzyk <jer...@supernet.ab.ca> wrote: > > I've had Amarok 2.4.1 (KDE 4.6.3, Fedora 14) running for 2 days, set > > to random play. > > > > System Activity shows 152.7M Memory, 35.8 Shared Mem - Amarok tops the > > memory-used list over X, Firefox and KMail among others - all of which > > have been running for a week. > > > > Why is so much memory being used for a music player? > > Or so little! > > Really, expecting anything less in the times of web-browsers that use > over 1GB of RES and desktop operating systems refusing to run with > less then 3GB is just not realistic. > There are various reasons why Amarok could be using more memory then > expected: - use of a MemoryCollection like DAAP, UPnP (w/o UPnP::Search > support), USB mass-storage devices, etc. > - Very large collection: we just need more memory to handle them and > the internal mysqle database will require a bit more to run itself as > well. Both will have way bigger query results. > > If however you find Amarok's memory usage keeps increasing steadily > over the runtime we probably have a mem-leak. But it doesn't seem that > way if after 2 days the usage was still less then currently my > qtcreator uses. > > But thanks for bringing it up anyway, we'll probably be doing some > memory usage reductions towards mobile platforms one day. > > Bart
Yes it increases from about 85M, up and up. I've seen 200M after a week or so. 90% of my use is playing through a random playlist (the simplest option) of 5400 FLACs off my local disk. I rarely open the UI and just use the right-click options from the System Tray icon. _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
