I am affected with 11.10. I just discovered that my Rhythmbox used 1.8 GB of memory.
I then killed it and started it again. I notice that skipping to or playing a new song eats up memory. If I skip to a next song, about 25 MB of memory are consumed and not properly released anymore. So if I click on -->| fast for four times in a row, around 100 MB are consumed without one of the skipped songs is actually played. I will take a look with another system, which has 12.04 installed. I digged a little further in it and it seems that -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/976534 Title: Rhythmbox cummulates memory in precise - probably memory leak Status in The Rhythmbox Music Management Application: Confirmed Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Rhythmbox memory usage is constantly increasing during long playing - hours. After one day allocates over 1GB of memory and never frees. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: rhythmbox 2.96-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Apr 8 14:19:34 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) SourcePackage: rhythmbox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-06 (61 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rhythmbox/+bug/976534/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
