Songbird Memory Usage is Obscene

This is NOT fixed. RC2 is leaking at 1M per minute.

I concur with toaster, songbird uses much more memory that nearly every other media player i have used.

Agreed. ver 1.0.0 buile 860 uses approx 200MB's of physical ram and over 514MB's of virtual after 12 hours....killing me! Upon initial start it uses 75MB's/115MB's (phys/virtual). Play one song and it jumps to 110MB's/270MB's

WMP: 20MB/100MB's initial start : 25MB/120MB playing song

Win XP SP2
2GB RAM
Intel Centrino Duo 1.83

cannot confirm the leaking comment - it's quite stable around 200 megs at least on linux regardless if there're 100 or 14000 songs in the library.

virtual: 778m
resident: 194-222m
shared: 34m

compared to eclipse this is a lightweight (just kidding)

Yeah, they should do something about the memory usage, I compared it to Winamp and it's double to triple in memory :/

I'm not as concerned about the amount of memory as I am concerned about the fact that it leaks. It should stay relatively constant if all you're doing is playing songs and it continues to grow.

I have a library of 20,000 songs and it starts out around 90MB and grows to 170MB after about 20 minutes of use.

I'm having the same problems. When I open it, its basically starting at 120mb and grows to 130-160mb over time.

One of the main reasons I want to leave iTunes is because its a memory hog, and installs a bunch of extra crap. I'd love songbird to be clean, lean, and full featured!

On my Pentium M 1.6ghz both itunes and songbird skip a lot and get staticy as I open browser windows, etc. Seems like they're both in the memory hog camp, while Foobar plays just fine.

Songbird used up to 700mb of my memory. The more I keep it open, the more memory it seems to use. When I start it it's under 80mb. What causes this memory leak? Maybe the fact I have a very big library? Why does it grow bigger and bigger instead of stopping once it has reached a certain amount of memory used? I'm in deep love with Songbird from EVERY point of view, but this thing is stopping me from doing what I usually do with media players, that is: keeping them open while I'm doing something else (for example playing WoW)

Thats why I'm sticking to Media Monkey, 30-40mb on Windows, compared to the over 80mbs for iTunes and Songbird

I hate to say this, but if you're a gamer or if you have limited memmory you shouldn't be using Songbird right now. It eats too much system resources and isn't showing signs of being fixed anytime soon imo.

There seems to be an obvious leak when playing songs. I can watch the memory usage increasing just by playing a song, then I pause and memory stays stable, then I resume and it starts increasing again.
Still in latest 1.1 nightlies.
Olivier

I see the exact same thing, whether playing back a file or a stream. Clean install and profile, nothing populated in the library.

Seems like it's not releasing the file/stream data that's been read into memory. I haven't counted the consumption to see if it matches the bitrate but I wouldn't be surprised if the increment the memory is growing at is a direct match to the bits per second of the file/stream being played.

It's discouraging to see little (evident) developer feedback on this rather consistent and obvious issue. I'd love to just see a comment confirming investigation into it, it seems like one that should be top of the list to address.

It appears this is noted and highly prioritized. Linking bug reports here to make this more evident:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show...
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show...

Further edit: Thread linked in first comment of this post is much more informative and has developer comments. Sorry for the redundancy, unfortunately the information on this topic is rather scattered to someone new to the community...

-Gabe