Bug 209937

Summary:	too much memory consumption when downloading big files
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	mtz.inc .. <codenamed004>
Component:	Podcast	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bart.cerneels
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.2.0
Target Milestone:	2.3.1
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description mtz.inc .. 2009-10-09 02:37:45 UTC

Version:           2.2.0 (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources


using amarok 2.2.0

currently, amarok downloads podcasts into memory and then commits them to disk when it has downloaded the whole podcast. 

This is ok if a podcast is 15MB big but its not when a video cast is 500MB. trying to download two videocast each 400+ MB and amarok will  starve everybody else for memory and will freeze for all the time it will take committing the file to disk 

can amarok download the files the way firefox does it? by creating a .part file and write straight to disk?

Comment 1 Bart Cerneels 2009-11-25 12:53:58 UTC

Fixed in v2.2.1-289-ga5801df thanks to Frank Meerkoetter merge request.