When i leave iTunes running for a while it starts to use tons of system memory. right now its using 306MB of ram. I have a dell inspiron 600m. 1.25 gig ram 1.6 ghz pentium m processor. If i turn off itunes and restart it it will only use between 40--60mb for a while. then it starts creeping back up and using tons. this doesnt seem right. any ideas?

1/28/2007 10:47:56 AM

yea, use it only when you need to; dont leave it running.

1/28/2007 10:51:45 AM

that is what itunes does best

1/28/2007 12:22:36 PM

Get a Mac.

1/28/2007 1:17:11 PM

I've had iTunes open and playing music for over a day and its currently only using 11MB of memory...I would try to reinstall it.

1/28/2007 1:47:47 PM

the problem is you are using itunes which is widely known to suck

try windows media player

1/28/2007 1:59:02 PM

synapse how many songs do you have? i wonder if that could make any difference

1/28/2007 2:10:31 PM

Are you using CoverFlow?

If so, it's got a memory leak. It'll cache every album image displayed in DRAM and even if you disable Coverflow, it won't deallocate the memory it allocated to cache the images, and you'll have to kill iTunes to recover the memory. Until they fix it, just don't use Coverflow.

1/28/2007 3:09:05 PM

i've got over 5000 songs

1/28/2007 3:44:42 PM

I am not using the coverflow thing to scroll through the albums but I do have the album picture displayed in the bottom left. how do you disable coverflow?...would clearing the album artwork do anything worthwhile?

1/28/2007 3:51:30 PM

media monkey

1/28/2007 4:56:46 PM

^^ ah, anything that displays the album art will have the same problem.

under view uncheck "show artwork"

but you'll have to kill itunes and restart it.

from what i've read, this will be fixed in the next version of itunes.

1/29/2007 10:29:57 PM