Version: 2.4.90 (2.5 beta) (using KDE 4.7.3) OS: Linux In a new UNIX user account, after starting Amarok from the "K" menu, it consumes over 12% of my 3 GB of RAM / memory (I'm on an x86-64 laptop running Mageia Linux Cauldron). It also happen in my existing user under certain circumstances. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a new UNIX user. 2. Start Amarok from the K Menu. 3. Select "United States" as the Amazon Store. 4. Keep the next dialog box saying whether to scan the ~/Music folder hanging. 5. Start a konsole terminal with "htop" or "top". Actual Results: Amarok consumes a lot of RAM. Expected Results: Amarok should not consume so much RAM. It seems better after the second invocation for the same user, but the same large memory consumption happens in my populated user sometimes as well.
12% of RAM, do you mean residual memory? Please give the line from htop or top
Created attachment 66724 [details] Screenshot of htop after Amarok consumes a lot of RAM. This is a screenshot of htop after Amarok consumes a lot of RAM at startup in a new user.
(In reply to comment #1) > 12% of RAM, do you mean residual memory? Please give the line from htop or top I mean Random-access-memory, not swap. That's what htop/top reports there. See the screenshot I attached.
Well, there is the virtual memory but it is the residual memory use that matters. Yours us just 371M which is absolutely correct. FWIW: I suggest you read up some documentation on dynamic memory use in Linux. In short: the more memory available, the more will be used, the system distributes this evenly to the running processes depending on their priority. Not a bug.