[Bug 30185] Rhythmbox uses excessive memory/Possible Leak?

[Darryl Clarke]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/30185

Comment:
As promised...


totem-gstreamer
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 1749 dclarke   15   0  275m  27m  15m S    4  2.7   0:08.86 totem
 1759 dclarke   15   0  234m  10m 1372 S    0  1.0   0:00.00 totem
after 1 hour... totem-gstreamer
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 1749 dclarke   15   0  495m  31m  15m S    5  3.2   2:17.25 totem
 5856 dclarke   15   0  479m  17m 1284 S    0  1.8   0:00.00 totem

totem-xine
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 6087 dclarke   15   0  269m  16m 1100 S    0  1.6   0:00.00 totem
 6065 dclarke   15   0  237m  33m  17m S    2  3.3   0:05.44 totem
after 2 hours... totem-xine
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 6575 dclarke   15   0  268m  17m 1244 S    0  1.7   0:00.00 totem
 6065 dclarke   15   0  237m  33m  17m S    2  3.4   4:00.23 totem

totem-xine does not display the same memory increase as gstreamer based
players, so again, I'll state that this bug is not at application level,
but something the applications use.