I experienced this today on a pretty fresh install of 12.10 64-bit. It became problematic when I ran VirtualBox (with lots of memory requirements).
I Manually killed all Rhythmbox processes. I was listening to the "Radio" stations. -- 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/1080041 Title: rhythmbox-metadata process constantly fills ALL of the memory, then drops to 1% until killed Status in The Rhythmbox Music Management Application: New Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When first started, rhythmbox's rhythmbox-metadata process tends to grab all available memory (up to 1.1 GB) for a few seconds, then releases everything for a while. Then it slowly creeps up to 1.1 GB again. This repeats indefinitely until I manually kill the offending process, at which point it respawns, although no longer taking up more than 10 MB. System: Ubuntu 12.10 with all updates installed; 64-bit $ apt-cache policy rhythmbox rhythmbox: Installed: 2.97-1ubuntu5 Candidate: 2.97-1ubuntu5 Version table: *** 2.97-1ubuntu5 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rhythmbox/+bug/1080041/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
