Rhythmbox cummulates memory in precise - probably memory leak

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Yup.

This is with all plugins and crossfading backend disabled, too. It *looks like* its caching the song in memory, and never releasing it - memory usage goes up every time there is a song change, be it natural or prompted (ff/rewind buttons).

This is completely unusuable; you can *easily* accumulate hundreds, if not thousands, of RAM by simply pushing FF a bunch of times.

*hundreds, if not thousands, of --megabytes of -- RAM. Ugh. More coffee needed.

I've the same problem!

I am also affected in Ubuntu 12.04, right now it consumes 1.4GB of RAM. Never seen anything like this in rhythmbox...

I am experiencing the same problem. I opened up system monitor one day to find Rhythmbox was using 1.8 GB of RAM. I started pressing the skip button, and the usage started building up even more, up to 2.3 GB.

This should be a high-priority bug in my opinion.

I am experiencing this too, though not every time, but it does happen sometimes on 12.04
Can't believe how ignorant the devs are, none of them has even said something here!

I don't think the memory leak is related to the GStreamer backend. It could be related to in-memory album art caching. You should file this bug directly on bugzilla if you want to get more attention from upstream devs.

Since the problem persists in both 2.96 and the recently released 2.97 (that I grabbed from webupd8.org ppa), in order to get more attention to this bug, I have forwarded this to GNOME's bugzilla.

It is claimed that it has just been fixed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677738#c5 Could anyone backport this patch, please: http://git.gnome.org/browse/rhythmbox/commit/?id=8999cca931818ad7e0385d3ab88b44bfa4329410 ? It's of really high importance, since the leaks are really huge.

Why is it set to incomplete?

It is claimed in the upstream report that a number of recent commits (4 in total since 2.97 so far) fix even more of 'huge leaks.' I would like to kindly ask you to consider backporting them to Precise. It's very important to make Rhythmbox, which is the *main* media player, actually usable in Precise.

According to Jonathan Matthew, the current main developer of Rhythmbox, GNOME git commits '3dec1ff, fc1e8ca, 7ea940f and 7cdf4cd fix even more leaks'. See gnome bug #677738 for the full list.

Can Ubuntu 12.04 LTS users expect these very important patches for the *default* media player to reach their systems in the nearest future? Or at least backport them to the Quantal version so that someone with packaging knowledge would at least be able to backport the package to Precise.

I am affected with 11.10.

I just discovered that my Rhythmbox used 1.8 GB of memory.

I then killed it and started it again. I notice that skipping to or playing a new song eats up memory. If I skip to a next song, about 25 MB of memory are consumed and not properly released anymore. So if I click on -->| fast for four times in a row, around 100 MB are consumed without one of the skipped songs is actually played. I will take a look with another system, which has 12.04 installed.

I digged a little further in it and it seems that

Sorry, accidentally clicked the post button.

It seems that the memory consumption has something to do with the cover art plugin, which is enabled.

I'm having this issue in precise with both 2.96 and 2.97. For me it only seems to happen when I use the unity music lense to start playing music.

I build latest rhythmbox from quantal reps for precise with patches from git which fixes memory leaks. You can install it from my ppa https://launchpad.net/~edgar2705/+archive/my-ppa and test it.

@Edgar It seems that the problem has gone away... Will this patch be included in the next release of Ubuntu?

I think now because quantal now in beta freeze. Also I think this patches not be included in precise, because this problem is not hard to notice but nothing has changed.

I think *not ...

Is this bug being fixed? Cause I still have it in 2.96 in precise pangolin. Any ideas what to do in order to not have to restart rhythmbox every couple of days?