iTunes Memory Hog
yesterday i upgraded to iTunes 7 as soon as it was released. my computer was running pretty sluggish. today i checked the memory usage on iTunes and it is a staggering 612,484 mb. i thought it may be a memory leak, so i closed iTunes, opened it again, and sure enough, it went right back up after scrolling through some of my albums. it does not go back down at all. with iTunes 6, it would typically use 30-40 mb. also, when i use the "cover flow" feature, i get these diagonal lines going thru all the cover art. is anyone else experiencing these same problems?
posted by Chris at 2:47 PM
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I'm running a Mac, and I too am experiencing some extreme memory hog problems from the latest iTunes. With iTunes 6 I would leave it running all day, but since version 7 is such a memory hog I kill it when I'm not listening to music. Major downgrade. :(
I'd make sure it isn't running the initial gapless audio process or looking for album art online. After that it's been running great on my Powerbook G4 and Mac Pro. Even with album cover view going on, It hardly ever gets over 60mb of RAM on either computer. I'm sure they'll get it running more efficiently in an update, but it's been all good for me.
I've run into the same memory hog situation. iTunes has used up to 220MB on my comp, totally slowing it to a crawl. I think I'm going back to v.6 until they patch it.
This only happens if you launch Itunes with the cover art feature toggled.
i.e. Go to the normal view as before, then close itunes and re-launch it. it should now stay between 30 and 50 megs. The issue seems to be with the cover flow feature.
I don't really understand all the memory complaints. If you have bought all this extra ram don't you want your apps to use it? Why have 500MB of available memory? Let itunes suck up what it wants ... it will give it back when other memory is needed. Let the OS manage your memory for, that's what it is there for.
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Here's a screenshot of iTunes 7 running on my comp. I've got over 5000 songs on there and have album art turned on. It's using less than 60 mb.
And for reference, I'm running the latest 15 inch macbookpro.
27.51 MB right now for me, seems to be OK.
I am running itunes with both the gapless audio and album art services, and I am still only using 42.69 MB of memory after it has been up for almost 24 hours.
Back to foobar for me. For under 15MB, I can view album art and play nearly any music file that exists. Itunes makes it easy, but I don't have super duper hardware to make it worthwile. Plus, what's up with the distortion?
I had the same problem with my PC, with itunes using 98% of my CPU and 30-60megs of memory EVEN WHEN IT WAS CLOSED! I'd literally have to go into processes, click itunes and select "end process." This is after I made sure iTunes was not running on the sidebar in the background. The problem became really prevailant when I moved my itunes mp3s to a new, bigger hard drive.
However now I made sure that my library file is on the same partition that my mp3s are and the problem seems to have gone away. iTunes uses a sliver of CPU, and "only" uses 30megs of ram. For now...
I just got the same problem. Around 4500MPs, 411 albums. All with art. Memory usage was 514.5MB. This is unacceptable. I have a 1GB of RAM and my computer is laggy due entirely to iTunes wanting well over hlf of my available memory.
yeah thats quite insane, my iTunes uses 485 Mb of RAM, im going back to iTunes 6
can't wait until songbird gets their library management right. it's the only thing keeping on itunes... i really like itunes but i shouldn't have to buy a new computer just to keep up with their updates... photoshop and indesign run smoother when opened simultaneously than itunes alone...
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hi - i've recently been putting lots of cds into my itunes and then onto my ipod. Since doing this my computer memory has virtually gone down to zero. IS there any way of knowing if indeed this itunes activity is the reason for this computer memory depletion? and if it is, how can i solve it?
any ideas?
many thanks
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