Version: svn revision 953597 (using KDE 4.2.2) Compiler: GCC 4.3.3 OS: Linux Installed from: Unlisted Binary Package At startup Amarok 2.1svn (at the moment revision 953083) takes about 80 MB of RAM, which I think is OK for my big music collection (~40.000 tracks). But then Amarok constantly increases memory usage by about 0.5-1 MB every minute. Even if it does nothing (not playing, not scanning, ...). With this behaviour Amarok completely slows down my computer after running for a day, because every other application has to swap. To solve the problem I had to disable "Watch Folders For Changes". Then the memory usage usually is below 150 MB. My collection is on a ext3 partition and mainly consists of mp3 and Ogg Vorbis. There are some musepack and aac files, too. See also the forum discussion: http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/topic,16825.0.html And I guess bug 189850 is related to this, too.
Thanks for the report. We've already started to run some Valgrind checks, and I've identified a possible leak in Solid or Amarok (not sure). I've created the following bug report for Solid, let's see what they say: BUG 189863
This bug came up on #amarok today and it's already fixed in revision 961137. Unrelated to the Solid problem; that one also looks valid to me though.