Hi all,

while playing amarok, I notice that it gets approx. 40 MB of vmrss memory. When I start play, amarok creates a new process which takes approx. 10 MB. Is there something I can do to have that first process killed and keep amarok playing with just the second process?

I tried to make amarok uses postgresql for collection tracking, but this make things worst. As amarok keep using 40 mb and two postgresql connections, each one taking 7MB.

I\'m using amarok 1.4beta2. On Gnu/Linux Gentoo KDE 3.5.0

Thanks in advance.

IMO, 4 MB or 10 MB doesn\'t make much difference in the world of 1GB sticks of RAM. 40 MB, even 50 MB, of memory usage is still much less than iTunes which can get up to >100MB at times.

Yeah. It is true. The problem is that my notebook has 512 of ram and I\'m already with a large working set.

Also, I think 40 MB + 10 MB when playing too much for a player.

I\'d like Amarok could free the memory when I enable the mini player. Because sometimes I just want to play my music, I don\'t want to search lyrics, see full abums information etc.

compile from scratch and research LDFLAGS. Using LDFLAGS you can strim amaroK down so it doesnt load libraries it _REALLY_ doesn\'t need. I can\'t guarantee it won\'t break anything for you, but you\'re very likely to be successful and cut down memory consumption 10-15MB or more if you\'re really lucky.



-Feld