iTunes 7, RAM hog.

[HungrySeacow]

Anyone else notice just how bad this is? I have 2GBs of ram which is generally considered a lot to most users and iTunes 7 keeps working on eating the whole thing . Even more sad, quit iTunes and you don't get your memory back. Bad Apple... Bad..

 

[benthewraith]

Anyone else notice just how bad this is? I have 2GBs of ram which is generally considered a lot to most users and iTunes 7 keeps working on eating the whole thing . Even more sad, quit iTunes and you don't get your memory back. Bad Apple... Bad..

Forgive me for saying this, but did you CMD + Quit iTunes? I watched two things and then quit in iTunes and I got my RAM back, and I have the same amount as you.

If you did, try reinstalling.

 

[Azmordean]

As I sit here, iTunes 7 is currently using 56 MB of RAM. I'd try reinstalling it if I were you. Granted I just downloaded it, but so far I have no problems with it!

 

[Electro Funk]

393 iTunes macbook 0.10 10 37.77 MB

 

[dukebound85]

Hmm i get low 30's in ram for itunes 7. doesnt seem that bad

 

[Warbrain]

I'm having this same issue right now. I'm going to see if a re-install will help.

 

[Warbrain]

I got iTunes back through a re-install. We'll see what happens now when I quit and re-open.

Came back upon launch again. So maybe it was just an odd install. I hope it was.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

137 megs or RAM is being used right now... That's a lot. This is on XP with just 500 songs.

 

[trudd]

The spike comes from browsing your music's artwork.

I opened it up and it ran at 27 megs (3,600 song library, FYI). Then I started browsing my artwork (making sure each album cover loaded), and it spiked to 500 megs.

'Tis the price we pay for aesthetics.

 

[freebooter]

My ram use is mid 60 mbs at start up, dropping to low 50s when I start to listen to something.(7500+ songs, mac mini ppc 1.42, 1GB ram) It does climb when spinning through the covers. The more covers looked at, the more it "remembers." I keep the covers to around 10kb each though. Maybe if you have some big image files in there, ram use might get really out of hand..