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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=361054219-25042007>Hi
all,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=361054219-25042007>I have recently
shifted my music onto a remote server so I can use it on all my
computers. I initially tried SMB but am now using NFS. When I
go into amarok and rebuild the connection, amarok consumes far more RAM than the
1GB I have currently installed.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=361054219-25042007>It shoots up to 6GB
fairly quickly, and then slowly goes up to 9GB where I got too impatient and
killed it. (For historical reasons, my machine has 20GB of swap so it
wasn't close to running out of memory but it seems to actually be trying to use
this memory - CPU usage is at 2%). It had got to 2/3 of the way through my
collection when I last killed it.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=361054219-25042007>I then tried wiping
.kde/share/apps/amarok and .kde/share/config/amarok* but restarting amarok still
caused a freeze on startup ('amarok is taking a long time to start up, maybe
something has gone wrong?') The only way I was able to recover was with
the command line --wizard which ran the first-time wizard again. That's
got it working again, but I'd prefer it to not break in the first
place :)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=361054219-25042007>So, I appear to have
worked around it by starting again and leaving it running overnight, but that
hardly seems an easy solution. Do people want me to do some further
investigation as to why it is happening and if amarok can be changed? Or is it
just a particularly degenerate case? I don't think amarok should attempt
to consume more than 4GB of swap at worst - most users don't have that much swap
+ ram.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=361054219-25042007>Oh, basic
configuration, the music consumes about 150GB which is stored on a USB/SMB
server - currently in USB mode, plugged into my mythtv backend which
is serving it via NFS to the frontend. The backend also runs
mysql and has 2GB of ram. The frontend has just 1GB of ram,
it runs ubuntu feisty (Version: 2:1.4.5-0ubuntu7). I have both mysql
and sqlite3 on the frontend but neither is currently in
use.<BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=361054219-25042007>Corrin</DIV></SPAN></FONT></BODY></HTML>