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. :(
My Itunes 7 is uisng 130MB now was about 30-40mb before.
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.
My new iTunes 7 is using about 130MB but I don't have all of my art yet.
I also have a about 3000 songs maybe 75 percent have art.
My new iTunes 7 is using about 130MB but I don't have all of my art yet.
I also have a about 3000 songs maybe 75 percent have art.
Sorry...
Dude you have 63 open processes!
I use a spiffy new-end iMac and an aging PC. By a strange turn of events I upgraded the PC to iTunes 7 first, and decided to leave the iMac with version 6. The PC's performance is absolutely shot with iTunes 7. If there is a version point where people simply stop wishing to upgrade iTunes, I think 6 is it. I don't have much use for the iTunes Store, save the occasional gift certificate. I like to listen to music and organize it neatly within a good interface. Do I really need to blow an extra 100MB of RAM to watch some album art float by in an interface that could never, ever, ever be integrated into my workflow?
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.
I am runner iTunes 7 under OS X Version 10.4.7 and its currently using about 20 to 30 mb. I am on an Intel based MacBook Pro.
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 have 9,800 songs, over 700 albums all with cover art. Using the CD flippy thing, I still only hit 70MB max. I think, while it is d/l-ing all of the cover art, you will get memory usage of several hundred MB, but not after. BTW, I am running a PC with WinXP
I am on a Powerbook G4 with Tiger 10.4.7. I have over 3700 songs in my library. iTunes 7 doesn't use more that 65MB of memory for me.
It must have something to do with the size of your music collection. I use iTunes mostly for podcasts and my use is:
Real Memory 26.61 megs
Virtual: 173.85 megs
Of course I just loaded it. iTunes might have the same problem I have with Safari, a memory leak that sends VM use over 1.2 Gigs, makes it slow, and eventually crashes it. But Apple was interested in my bug report on that and I've yet to see it in the latest build of Safari.
I suspect it has something to do with the size of your collection and perhaps the cover art. All that eye candy does have a cost.
--Mike Perry, Untangling Tolkien
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?
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Thats what I call ram usage. Note: usage was only this high after scrolling through 37gbs of music in coverflow. 5 minutes after i stopped scrolling it went back down to 13mbs
It's a bit worse than it looks really, i have screenshots of killing my CPU even when downloading files. I have this in screenshots on my blog
About the diagonal line, you probably have disabled z-buffering with your graphics driver to improve performance, but this allows for such visual artifacts. I'm surprised it only looks this screwed
820+ albums (with most having cover art) = 1gig of memory use.
See the video here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-KLFUBgews
and check out this picture off the mem use vs wmp, winamp and foobar.
http://folk.uio.no/vidarnm/itunes-mem.gif
forgot the link to the picture...
I have 23,066 songs with about 80% album art. After scrolling through the album art rollodex type thing, I get over 700mb of ram being used. Its ridiculous, It makes it an almost useless feature because it does not go back down.
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'm having the same problem. It'll suck up about 4gb off my hard drive. I think it has to do with downloading movies or long tv shows. Never had a problem with 6.
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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