I think it might be the collection scanner. When I do a full collection scan with 2.4.1 it fills the entire memory in about 20 minutes. I have to kill it or the machine starts to thrash.
I have about 11500 tracks, which I guess is a largish collection? On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:22, Jerome Yuzyk <jer...@supernet.ab.ca> wrote: > > > 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 >
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