Re: [Banshee-List] 1G of memory just to play music?

[Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander kojevnikov com>]

2009/10/28 Brian J. Murrell <brian interlinx bc ca>:
> I'm running banshee 1.5.0 on Ubuntu Jaunty and it's currently reported
> by top:
>
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  8210 brian     20   0  934m 462m 8040 S    1 16.7  92:18.25 banshee-1
>
> Seriously.  1GB of virtual and 462MB(!) of real memory just to play
> music?
>
> Considering I can quit that banshee and start a new one and it only
> costs me:
>
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 10453 brian     20   0  132m  69m  23m S    0  2.5   0:08.23 banshee-1
>
> in memory, what's going on?  One could jump to the memory leak
> conclusion but I would have thought (out of pure ignorance mind you)
> that a programming environment like mono/.NET would have taken care of
> those kinds of uglies.

Try 1.5.1, it fixes an ugly memory leak. There are still a couple of
known leaks though, patches are welcome:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555365
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586052