Itunes eats 4GB or RAM!?

[jimbeam]

Just restored, upgraded and jailbroke 3.0. Now I'm syncing about 15GB of music and apps back and I noticed iTunes is using all but 8MB of my 4GB of memory! All I have open is itunes and safari.

Is this normal? Seems a bit much.

[Duykur]

Might be bc it needs to take the songs into RAM first, then transfer it to your ipod, I've never seen this before though.

[Teslanaut]

Screenshot of activity monitor? My iTunes is doing just fine.

[Duykur]

Originally Posted by Teslanaut

Screenshot of activity monitor? My iTunes is doing just fine.

Are you transferring 15gb or apps and music?

[Axis]

Originally Posted by Teslanaut

Screenshot of activity monitor? My iTunes is doing just fine.

Psh, iTunes Helper.


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I've never noticed memory usage to THAT degree when running the visualizer or transferring multiple GBs. And I keep an eye on my system stats.

[jimbeam]

Actually I'm not sure if it is iTunes now. 3GB are inactive? So 1GB is being split up for all the running process. Going to try a restart after its done syncing.

[Teslanaut]

[jimbeam]

Originally Posted by Teslanaut

Cool? Anyway a restart freed it up. That was 3GB of REAL memory sitting inactive for some reason, but what ever happened it seems fixed now.

[Axis]

Originally Posted by jimbeam

Cool? Anyway a restart freed it up. That was 3GB of REAL memory sitting inactive for some reason, but what ever happened it seems fixed now.

Inactive memory isn't "bad". It's information no longer being used and has been cached to disk, but it will remain in RAM until another application needs the space.

Free memory has not yet been utilized.

[jimbeam]

Originally Posted by hellrider

Inactive memory isn't "bad". It's information no longer being used and has been cached to disk, but it will remain in RAM until another application needs the space.

Free memory has not yet been utilized.

oooohhh.