Amarok 2.4.1 memory use

[Mark Jaroski]

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 <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:

>
>
> On Thursday, June 09, 2011 02:14:54 AM Bart Cerneels
> <bart.cerneels at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 20:23, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at 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.
>
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