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[Djon]

I have around 6500 mp3s and notice quite in increase in memory usage as time goes. When it starts up, it only uses around 2 mb RAM. After 12 hours it uses 54 mb and after 1 day it passes 120 mb. I guess this will just increase more and more, which will be quite a problem for me, as my server already have slowdowns when it uses the 120 mb. Is this normal behaviour?

[Matt]

This is not normal.

Do you have any plugins running?  Visualizations, DSP, Interface, etc.

What if you manually switch tracks a lot of times?

What does memory usage do if you restore and minimize again after it has drifted up?

Thanks.

[Djon]

I only have uPNP running for plugins. I have only heard 5 songs or so for testing purposes. I shut it down and started it again, but it still eats RAM like crazy after 12 hours even though I haven't even used the program.
By restoring and minimizing do you just mean the window itself? I'll try that.

[Robo983]

I am seeing similar behavior. I haven't started any trouble shooting to isolate the problem and monitor its increase.

I too see it MC start low then grow to about 50Mbs in just a few minutes of Library activity. However, before I restarted it to notice this behavior it was at about 256MB of memory. Windows was notifying me that it had to increase Virtual.

To my knowelge I am only running Library Server and no other 3rd party.

What should be normal behavior for memory usage?

I am on MC473 and have about15-20K songs and more in video and images.

[JimH]

Virus checker?

[Robo983]

I am running Norton 2008. Should I shut it off to trouble shoot? How does that affect MC Memory usage?

[JimH]

If you have your virus checker checking every file every time it's opened or if it's checking every read or write to the registry or MC's library, I believe you might see something similar.

We see a lot of problems with over-eager virus checkers.

[Robo983]

Thanks! I will check that out. Seems when I saw the 256MB I had just added a rather large folder of audio files that MC was adding to the Library.

[Listener]

Jim, I notice that MC 12 starts very promptly and is immediately responsive.  After a moment there seems to be a lot of disk activity.  Is MC loading library info into RAM?

Bill Hunt

[JimH]

A lot of things can happen in the background.

Audio analysis
Enumeration of devices (first 30 to 60 seconds) to discover iPods, etc.
Thumbnailing
Auto-import
Podcasts
probably more I'm not thinking about.

[rossp]

What should be normal behavior for memory usage?

Task Manager show a stable 16mb for me...

Ross