Itunes exhausts memory and hangs during gapless analysis
Symptom: Memory exhaustion leading to application hang
Impact: Itunes unusable -- hangs 2-3 minutes after launch while "determining gapless playback"
Perfmon shows itunes consuming >= 2G or RAM when it stops responding
Itunes: 9.2.1.5
System: fully patched W7, running on core5 with 3G of RAM, 2T of free disk, single user. No other apps running
Itunes diagnostics: pass with no issues ID'd
Fresh install of itunes does not solve problem
Recreation of library from scratch does not solve problem.
No particular songs/albums cause the problem.
Appears to be tied to size of library (~10K songs)
Can I cap the amount of memory itunes uses (to force a write to disk)?
Can I disable gapless scan?
Can I access additional debug info?
Does the application really require >200K per song to do this analysis????
Sounds like this probably isn't related to your issue, but I had the exact same symptoms as you (iTunes rapidly increases memory usage until it eventually fails) I was also getting "The iTunes library cannot be saved. There is not enough memory." after it hogged all available memory (usually after it got to 1.2GB or so).
I'll post my resolution in case anyone else comes across this.
I was able to track my issue down to what appeared to be corrupt album art (!!). I first noticed that the issue would only occur when I viewed a playlist that had some new songs added to it. I noticed that some of the album art, from the "Get Info -> Artwork Tab" view appeared as nothing but a tiny black square.
I selected all in the playlist, did a "Get Info" on all the files, and then checked the Artwork box and left it blank (essentially clearing all artwork from all files in the playlist).
After that, I'm no longer having the issue, and iTunes is sitting around 70MB of memory usage.
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Analysis Target
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Summary of Findings
Description Active Sessions Recommendations
Percent of Activity
1 Row Lock Waits 155.44 | 99.88 1
2 Top SQL Statements 26.67 | 17.14 1
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Findings and Recommendations
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FireWire Information:
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com.rim.driver.BlackBerryVirtualPrivateNetwork (1.0.15)
com.silex.driver.sxuptp (1.5.1)
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[not loaded] com.Affinegy.InstaLANd.plist
[loaded] com.intego.BackupAssistant.daemon.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist
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[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
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[loaded] com.Affinegy.InstaLANa.plist
[loaded] com.intego.backupassistant.agent.plist
[loaded] com.rim.BBLaunchAgent.plist
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[loaded] com.google.GoogleContactSyncAgent.plist
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[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.trashSizeWatcher.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.volumeWatcher.plist
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None
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player
FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE)
Growl
Java
Internet Plug-ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
RL Secure Plug-In Layer.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
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ContentManager.plugin
RocketEngine.plugin
UploadManager.plugin
Bad Fonts:
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2% hidd
2% Safari
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1% fontd
1% PluginProcess
1% WindowServer
0% WebProcess
0% PeerManager
0% BBLaunchAgent
0% mDNSResponder
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139 MB Safari
66 MB mds
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57 MB CalendarAgent
49 MB Dock
41 MB BlackBerry-Link-Helper-Agent
41 MB Finder
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33 MB PluginProcess
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