ITunes eats all my RAM then crashes!

I don't know if it's a recent update or something, but recently iTunes, if left running unattended for a few hours, will eat up all my RAM (I have 12GB), causing over 11 million pageouts before becoming unresponsive. As soon as I force quit my memory is released, but I keep coming back to my Mac and finding that this has happened!
I've got lots of RAM and HD space free so I know it's not that - any ideas what I can do?

quote:
Originally posted by:
gunsou
Hi,
I noticed that when working on a project the slide preview
would stop working after a few minutes. When I investigated this
further I found out that captivate uses around 5 to 12 MB of
additional RAM per second playtime of the preview. When captivate
uses around 1.7GB of RAM the preview stops working (preview area
goes blank) the sound continues however. After some more testing I
found out that this is only the case when there are animations
present in the current slide. Without animations it also allocates
additional memory, however by far not as much as with animations. I
also had this problem with Cp 3 and the main reason to try out Cp 4
was that I hoped this and other bugs would be gone :(
You can download a .cp here for which the error occurs to me:
http://quibits.com/cp_eats_ram.cp
A short video of the bug can be found here:
http://quibits.com/cp_eating_my_ram/
Does anyone have the same problems, or know a solution?
Joachim
I had the same problem with CP3. I thought that was fixed in
CP4

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