Winamp 5.54 uses 100-145 MB of RAM

timt1978 · 30th July 2008, 04:09

I don't know if this is a bug or just me.
The previous version of Winamp 5.53 used 10-30MB of RAM However 5.54 is using at least 100MB and goes as high as 145MB. Especially when I open the Media Library.
I installed it with its default settings.

I'm running Windows XP SP2, and I have 512MB of RAM, AMD XP processor.

Rocker · 30th July 2008, 10:04

i'm guessing you have a bad plugin from a previous installation.

see the faq about this problem. a clean install might be the best solution.

Borbet · 30th July 2008, 11:40

Have the same problem, but my winamp is using 330 Mb running on Vista Ult. x86 2Gb.

Tried "clean install" as Rocker recommended but it didn't solve the problem

timt1978 · 30th July 2008, 15:32

I have already tried a clean install, I even reinstalled it in a new directory. And the it took 110 MB as soon as I ran the program.

Menschenfleisch · 30th July 2008, 17:06

hmm

~80mb for me

Really somewhat much

Borbet · 30th July 2008, 20:43

Hmm.. Maybe it's a miracle but some time later it came down to 13 Mb..

screamin_jesus · 31st July 2008, 01:57

Mine used to only use like 20 mb and less minimized but now it uses like 60 with the .54 update. There is definitely a problem here. I am using vista x64.

It doesn't seem to trim memory usage when minimized at all anymore like it used to.

screamin_jesus · 31st July 2008, 03:15

I just did a clean install to rule out plugins ect.. and it still sits there using at least 51 mb of ram minimized, I even chose not to install all the shoutcast/online/video stuff this time that I don't use anyway. 5.53 used MUCH less ram, is there anyway to fix this?

timt1978 · 31st July 2008, 05:22

Its intresting that the range of memory you are all using is so drasically different. I don't know why mine is so high 100MB-140MB, and I didn't install with any extras either

TimbreWolf · 31st July 2008, 13:17

I had this same problem but have just spent this morning working on it and it seems to be fixed now. I'll go through what I did in case it helps someone here.

Originally I had 5.53 using ~20M upgraded to 5.54 beta and it used >100M but I thought it was just a beta issue. Upgraded to full version today and it used ~120M when playing audio.

So, first I tried a clean install my way - uninstalled, deleted left-over files in Program Files/Winamp, and deleted the Nullsoft folder from the registry.

Reinstalled - no change.

Then I did a reinstall following these instructions:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....d=161361#clean
except I again deleted the registry entry as had already done this before reading the advise not to. This time after running the uninstaller there was no files left to manually delete.
I couldn't find any enty in any of my Application Data folders, but when I looked in C:\Windows I didn't find a "Winamp.ini" but I did find a "WINAMP.EXE-0D0189CA.pf" so I deleted this file. I then rebooted my PC.

Ok, this is where my memory gets hazy as what I was doing didn't seem important at the time....

After reboot, I reinstalled as normal. After opening winamp and scanning my library either there was no change or the memory usage was down to ~60M (I can't remember which).

I noticed that when you shut down winamp, the exe still runs, so I played around with ending the process and/or the agent (winampa.exe) process before restarting the programme.
I also experimanted with restarting from the Start menu rather than the quick launch shortcut.

Anyway I eventually had it to a stage where it was using ~60M but had idling CPU usage (even when not playing a file) of between 1 and 4%.

Then I rebooted my PC again and to cut this a little short (played around with the above ideas)it seems to be somewaht fixed (memory of ~20M and no CPU usage when minimised).

I mean somewhat in that it acts a little strangely.

Playing a file in fullscreen now gives ~40-65M usage (Media library tab). If I minimise it it's down to ~13M, if I was on the visualisation tab previously (higher CPU usage) and minimise it I get slightly higher memory usage and CPU usage with spikes of up to 35%). I guess the visualisation is still runnning in some sense then.

If I start in fullscreen mode (no visualisation) and go to windowshade mode the memory usage only drops slightly (30-40M). But if I then minimse it and re-open it into windowshade mode the memory usage goes down to ~15M.

So it seems to depend on the order you do things in...???

I'm using XP SP3, AMD X2 processor, 2GB RAM.

Good luck getting yours fixed!

EDIT: What's with that "URL submitted by user" yoke? How do you post URLs so that people can see them/open them???

screamin_jesus · 31st July 2008, 14:45

I'm running vista home premium x 64, x2 5000+ with 4 gb of memory so I guess it doesn't matter much to me, but now I'm more curious. This small incremental update doubled my memory usage which is very strange. The cpu usage was also spiking but I managed to fix that with the clean install. What the hell could they ahve changed to cause this? Mine used to trim the memory down to like under 10 mb minimized ut now it doesn't change at all.

texasflood · 31st July 2008, 21:06

And I thought WMP was a memory hog. I'm getting a CPU usage reading of ~80mb (~60 in windowshade mode) compared to ~20 on WMP.

screamin_jesus · 1st August 2008, 00:11

seems a lot of people are having this problem then. 5.53 uses less than half the memory 5.54 is using.

listeruk · 1st August 2008, 11:18

Same here.
Clean install, no active playlist, no video support, no online services etc...
5.54 uses over 70 mb memory, compared to 5.53 which had all of the above and still used half of that at most.

screamin_jesus · 12th August 2008, 02:48

It seems to act normally on my xp pc trimming mem usage on mininimze ect... it seems to only do it on my vista machines.

Rocker · 12th August 2008, 10:57

classic for me 25Mb usage

Rocker · 12th August 2008, 10:59

bento

timt1978 · 12th August 2008, 15:13

I did'nt know realize I could post pics here.

Here Winamp Open with Media Library and in an Idle State.

Heres Winamp open with the Media Library closed in an idle state.

Heres Winamp Minimized to the taskbar idle.

And here is my System Info.

egendomligt · 1st September 2008, 11:19

Winamp 5.54 uses up to 500Mb of RAM for me.. please fix this bug someone.

TimbreWolf · 2nd September 2008, 17:33

Just upgraded my Vista laptop to 5.541 and this issue has reappeared. It won't go below 70MB even when minimised, tried everything I did to fix it before with no luck.

It's not a problem on my XP PC though.

Luckily I don't often play music off my laptop so it's no big deal for the moment.

egendomligt · 4th September 2008, 09:22

I upgraded to 5.541. Now Winamp actually frees ram on minimize. But still.. after a while.. see attachment.

Sawg · 4th September 2008, 09:25

full uninstall and reinstall
Information required when posting

timt1978 · 4th September 2008, 13:51

Quote:

Originally posted by Sawg
full uninstall and reinstall
Information required when posting

A full uninstall, reinstall does'nt work.

Rocker · 4th September 2008, 23:13

post a plugin list please
you should have less ram usage than me, as i'm using a massively resource hungry windows.

brody456 · 5th September 2008, 00:07

mine is only 20mb with the bento skin and i have 3 remote shout case server on my system and all of it i am only running 100mb with the 2 remote shoucat severs i run ps listen to pirate radio http://kqlz.org

timt1978 · 5th September 2008, 00:27

My plug in list is attached.

timt1978 · 17th September 2008, 15:04

Anything usefull found in my Plug ins list?

30th July 2008, 04:09	#1
timt1978 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 11	Winamp 5.54 uses 100-145 MB of RAM I don't know if this is a bug or just me. The previous version of Winamp 5.53 used 10-30MB of RAM However 5.54 is using at least 100MB and goes as high as 145MB. Especially when I open the Media Library. I installed it with its default settings. I'm running Windows XP SP2, and I have 512MB of RAM, AMD XP processor.

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Sawg Forum King Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 7,456	full uninstall and reinstall Information required when posting \| Brought to you by ^V ^C \| The one... the original... no seriously!

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30th July 2008, 10:04	#2
Rocker Hiding in plain sight (mod) Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 9,910	i'm guessing you have a bad plugin from a previous installation. see the faq about this problem. a clean install might be the best solution.

30th July 2008, 11:40	#3
Borbet Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2	Have the same problem, but my winamp is using 330 Mb running on Vista Ult. x86 2Gb. Tried "clean install" as Rocker recommended but it didn't solve the problem

30th July 2008, 15:32	#4
timt1978 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 11	I have already tried a clean install, I even reinstalled it in a new directory. And the it took 110 MB as soon as I ran the program.

30th July 2008, 17:06	#5
Menschenfleisch Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 178	hmm ~80mb for me Really somewhat much

30th July 2008, 20:43	#6
Borbet Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2	Hmm.. Maybe it's a miracle but some time later it came down to 13 Mb..

31st July 2008, 01:57	#7
screamin_jesus Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 28	Mine used to only use like 20 mb and less minimized but now it uses like 60 with the .54 update. There is definitely a problem here. I am using vista x64. It doesn't seem to trim memory usage when minimized at all anymore like it used to.

31st July 2008, 03:15	#8
screamin_jesus Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 28	I just did a clean install to rule out plugins ect.. and it still sits there using at least 51 mb of ram minimized, I even chose not to install all the shoutcast/online/video stuff this time that I don't use anyway. 5.53 used MUCH less ram, is there anyway to fix this?

31st July 2008, 05:22	#9
timt1978 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 11	Its intresting that the range of memory you are all using is so drasically different. I don't know why mine is so high 100MB-140MB, and I didn't install with any extras either

31st July 2008, 13:17	#10
TimbreWolf Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 58	I had this same problem but have just spent this morning working on it and it seems to be fixed now. I'll go through what I did in case it helps someone here. Originally I had 5.53 using ~20M upgraded to 5.54 beta and it used >100M but I thought it was just a beta issue. Upgraded to full version today and it used ~120M when playing audio. So, first I tried a clean install my way - uninstalled, deleted left-over files in Program Files/Winamp, and deleted the Nullsoft folder from the registry. Reinstalled - no change. Then I did a reinstall following these instructions: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....d=161361#clean except I again deleted the registry entry as had already done this before reading the advise not to. This time after running the uninstaller there was no files left to manually delete. I couldn't find any enty in any of my Application Data folders, but when I looked in C:\Windows I didn't find a "Winamp.ini" but I did find a "WINAMP.EXE-0D0189CA.pf" so I deleted this file. I then rebooted my PC. Ok, this is where my memory gets hazy as what I was doing didn't seem important at the time.... After reboot, I reinstalled as normal. After opening winamp and scanning my library either there was no change or the memory usage was down to ~60M (I can't remember which). I noticed that when you shut down winamp, the exe still runs, so I played around with ending the process and/or the agent (winampa.exe) process before restarting the programme. I also experimanted with restarting from the Start menu rather than the quick launch shortcut. Anyway I eventually had it to a stage where it was using ~60M but had idling CPU usage (even when not playing a file) of between 1 and 4%. Then I rebooted my PC again and to cut this a little short (played around with the above ideas)it seems to be somewaht fixed (memory of ~20M and no CPU usage when minimised). I mean somewhat in that it acts a little strangely. Playing a file in fullscreen now gives ~40-65M usage (Media library tab). If I minimise it it's down to ~13M, if I was on the visualisation tab previously (higher CPU usage) and minimise it I get slightly higher memory usage and CPU usage with spikes of up to 35%). I guess the visualisation is still runnning in some sense then. If I start in fullscreen mode (no visualisation) and go to windowshade mode the memory usage only drops slightly (30-40M). But if I then minimse it and re-open it into windowshade mode the memory usage goes down to ~15M. So it seems to depend on the order you do things in...??? I'm using XP SP3, AMD X2 processor, 2GB RAM. Good luck getting yours fixed! EDIT: What's with that "URL submitted by user" yoke? How do you post URLs so that people can see them/open them???

31st July 2008, 14:45	#11
screamin_jesus Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 28	I'm running vista home premium x 64, x2 5000+ with 4 gb of memory so I guess it doesn't matter much to me, but now I'm more curious. This small incremental update doubled my memory usage which is very strange. The cpu usage was also spiking but I managed to fix that with the clean install. What the hell could they ahve changed to cause this? Mine used to trim the memory down to like under 10 mb minimized ut now it doesn't change at all.

31st July 2008, 21:06	#12
texasflood Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Matthews, NC Posts: 9	And I thought WMP was a memory hog. I'm getting a CPU usage reading of ~80mb (~60 in windowshade mode) compared to ~20 on WMP.

1st August 2008, 00:11	#13
screamin_jesus Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 28	seems a lot of people are having this problem then. 5.53 uses less than half the memory 5.54 is using.

1st August 2008, 11:18	#14
listeruk Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 95	Same here. Clean install, no active playlist, no video support, no online services etc... 5.54 uses over 70 mb memory, compared to 5.53 which had all of the above and still used half of that at most.

12th August 2008, 02:48	#15
screamin_jesus Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 28	It seems to act normally on my xp pc trimming mem usage on mininimze ect... it seems to only do it on my vista machines.

12th August 2008, 15:13	#18
timt1978 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 11	I did'nt know realize I could post pics here. Here Winamp Open with Media Library and in an Idle State. Heres Winamp open with the Media Library closed in an idle state. Heres Winamp Minimized to the taskbar idle. And here is my System Info.

1st September 2008, 11:19	#19
egendomligt Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 2	Winamp 5.54 uses up to 500Mb of RAM for me.. please fix this bug someone.

2nd September 2008, 17:33	#20
TimbreWolf Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 58	Just upgraded my Vista laptop to 5.541 and this issue has reappeared. It won't go below 70MB even when minimised, tried everything I did to fix it before with no luck. It's not a problem on my XP PC though. Luckily I don't often play music off my laptop so it's no big deal for the moment.

4th September 2008, 23:13	#24
Rocker Hiding in plain sight (mod) Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 9,910	post a plugin list please you should have less ram usage than me, as i'm using a massively resource hungry windows.

5th September 2008, 00:07	#25
brody456 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Vancuver BC Canada Posts: 123	mine is only 20mb with the bento skin and i have 3 remote shout case server on my system and all of it i am only running 100mb with the 2 remote shoucat severs i run ps listen to pirate radio http://kqlz.org

17th September 2008, 15:04	#27
timt1978 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 11	Anything usefull found in my Plug ins list?