Bob Palowoda wrote: > Ok this is in respect of SXCE 101a which includes both Songbird and Rhythmbox. > I have what I suspect as a mediocre size library of mp3 that is 113G in size. > But that > is not the issue. When I examine the RSS value of Songbird (506M) vs the RSS > value of Rhythmbox 87M for the same size of imported mp3 files that is quite > a large > difference. > > The question is what is a reasonable consumption of memory for a multimedia > application? I do understand that Songbird has other options but what I > would > like a good understanding is what is a reasonable limit of memory consumption > of these two multimedia applications on a desktop with 4G of memory. > > I would just like to hear some logical justification of the memory > consumption with > the intended target audience/usage of their respective systems. > > ---Bob > I'd put my money on Rhythmbox over Songbird (I can't stand how incompetant the Mozilla developers are) mainly because it's more native (In a sense of sharing resources/memory) to GNOME. It all depends on how the songs are parsed and tracked, but I can bet you Songbird uses more CPU at the least, and probably more ram, especially for such a relatively large collection.
That is hardly mediocre/modest by normal definition, and if you've ran Firefox with a bunch of tabs, you'd know how dog slow it becomes. Rhythmbox is less complex (Lacks a few features that are catering to iTunes people, though I am one of those and prefer it due to simplicity). Try for yourself, but I would say a media application should not use more than about 256mb of memory unless it's also a movie player which plays HD content (H.264 or MPEG4 with AAC and DTS 5.1 would probably bloat the consumption to an upwards of 512mb at least). James
