Itunes memory hog

Seems when I launch itunes puter locks up as itunes.exe is using all the memory CPU = 95-99 and
memory usage is 106,976 K which stops or a real long time to load. This is thru Task Manager under
processes.

You should post your question in the iTunes discussions, as this forum is for troubleshooting Apple Software Update for Windows, a software package for Windows designed to update Apple products that run on Windows, and not really related to iTunes:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=150

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Why is iTunes memory usage so high?

As the title states iTunes is using a riduclous amount of memory of my computer 150MB and continually rising until it freezes and then crashes. This is such a useless program and such a memory hog. Any ideas on how to reduce the stupid amount of RAM this program uses?

Close your iTunes,
Go to command Prompt -
(Win 7/Vista) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES, right mouse click "Command Prompt", choose "Run as Administrator".
(Win XP SP2 & above) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES/Command Prompt
In the "Command Prompt" screen, type in
netsh winsock reset
Hit "ENTER" key
Restart your computer.
Now launch your iTunes and see if it is working now.

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Try this,
Close your iTunes,
Go to command Prompt - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES, right mouse click "Command Prompt", choose "Run as Administrator".
In the Command Prompt box, type in
netsh winsock reset
Hit "ENTER" key
Restart your computer.
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How to reduce "other" in itunes memory on iphone?

how to reduce "other" in itunes memory on iphone? The amount of memory is increasing to point i have no more memory. Most of this is in iphone "other". How do I reduce this?

Not if you sync regularly. And have set up the phone to sync to contact and calendar apps on your computer as explained in the manual.

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I recently read in this forum that "Safari is a
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"384MB of RAM to run any one creative application with Adobe® Bridge
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By the way, are you using the Photoshop SDK, a programmer tool? If so,
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ITunes memory issue

Hi guys,
I downloaded a little program called "Disk Inventory X" to help manage my memory. it puts all my memory in an order and helps me put it all in perspective. One issues I've been having is with my itunes memory. When iTunes is up, I'm sure you all know of the bottom where it says how much memory you have on your iTunes library. Mine says i have 65 gb. However, when I look at my disk inventory and go to the Music part it says i have 83 gb. I assume that's from times I've tried removing songs from my library and instead of choosing "Move to trash" i choose "keep files". So that would mean i have 18 gb that I don't even want, and I don't really know how to find it. I've tried going into the iTunes music folder, but I'm not sure what to delete as i don't want to accidentally delete something I want to keep.

Just a small technical observation to make your post more clear. "Memory" in standard usage refers to temporary memory used by a program just to run. Space taken up by files (and as reported by Disk Inventory) is called file space, or drive usage, or pretty much anything except "memory".

ITunes memory wipes after closing

I have a problem where my iTunes memory wipes everytime I close it. I have tried uninstalling and installing again however it makes no difference, all my songs, podcasts etc. will be gone.
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From: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9005766
For Sony Vaio users whose iTunes was erasing music upon exit!!!!!
Posted: Feb 16, 2009 3:44 AM
I found out how to fix our problem! I did a chat with sony tech support and they helped me resolve our problem. I will give you step by step guide.
Step 1: Uninstall iTunes. Be sure to back up your music, either in CD or Zip Drive. You might lose it, but I didn't, I just had to go back and find it.
Step 2: Install Windows Installer 4.5. go to
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/942288
Be sure to Download each of the files that it lists for your Operating System. I had to download three. You can download multiple files at once, too.
Step 3: Reinstall iTunes, import you music, and enjoy!!

ITunes 11 (Mac) is an incredible memory hog

Look at this! iTunes takes 19GB of virtual memory, 2.6GB resident. It takes half an hour just to QUIT the program. The entire system crawls even if iTunes isn't doing anything. What on earth could be the matter here?
System: mid-2007 iMac, 4GB memory, OS X 10.8.2.
$ ps axguww| egrep iTun\|CPU
USER              PID %CPU %MEM      VSZ    RSS   TT STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
matt              300   1.0 63.6 19329580 2669520   ?? R    Wed09PM 114:14.67 /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes -psn_0_45067
matt              406   0.0 0.0 2466140    792   ?? S    Wed09PM   0:00.87 /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesH elper -psn_0_110619
matt            41216   0.0 0.0 2432768    588 s003 R+   10:16PM   0:00.00 egrep iTun|CPU

Matt,
I don't have the solution, but wanted to commiserate with someone with a similar issue. I have a similar iMac with the same RAM and am now up to OS X 10.8.3 with iTunes 11.0.2. I don't have an issue with iTunes under non-web-based operations, it plays music fine and syncs with devices without much problem. Where I have the problem similar to yours is when I am searching the iTunes Store.
Say I'm looking for a certain song. I do the search and click on "See All" for the songs on the results page showing everything that is sold. I could get a list of over a thousand versions or related songs. As I begin to scroll down this list with the added thumbnail of the album cover (in iTunes 11), I get to about item 100 and iTunes starts to bog down and get slower and slower. When I go to Activity Monitor to see what's going on iTunes is scooping up all the CPU and keeps chewing away at real and virtual memory. It gets slower and slower until it does become unusable as other have said. At this point it's taken up about 2 GB of real memory and an equal or larger portion of virtual memory and this is reflected over the rest of the computer and other apps (and I'm not running much else concurrently!) as all real memory is about gone. I never had this issue with iTunes 10, I never noticed any slow downs during many store searches. So do we have to put up with this super lag due to the album thumbnails? If so just give me the option to shut them off and search on a more responsive basis - as I am trying to buy something. I'm hoping future updates will get iTunes 11 in line.
I give you credit for waiting for iTunes to take its time to quit, as I usually give it the "Force Quit" and try again.

ITunes 7 = memory hog?

I've had a lot of the same problems people have already brought up so far; sound playing at 2x speed, stuttering/scratchy audio being the major ones, although I've only had one or two instances of each. The thing that concerns me is how much RAM iTunes now seems to use.
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Needless to say, this is ridiculous and so far as I'm concerned it's unaccaptable. Apple, please release a patch and get all of this stuff tightened up. Has anybody else been experiencing this with iTunes 7?
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I posted this in a seperate thread, but I thought, and was recommended that it may be more appropriate here...
Here are my system specs:
iTunes 7
Athlon X2 3800+ Manchester
1 GB of RAM
256 MB Nvidia 6200 AGP
Windows XP Professional
I decided to keep a CacheMan 5.5 logfile so I could see how iTunes 7 with Album View was affecting my physical RAM usage. The program began with iTunes in "List View", my standard operating system setup (widgets, Outlook, chat prgrams, etc...), as well as CacheMan and Task Manager running. The results were staggering... Note the times on left.
---------- Begin Test -----------------
5:31:41: Physical RAM usage: 517.1 MB
5:31:43: Physical RAM usage: 516.4 MB
5:31:45: Physical RAM usage: 516.2 MB
5:31:47: Physical RAM usage: 515.6 MB
Began Scrolling Album View
5:31:49: Physical RAM usage: 534.3 MB
5:31:51: Physical RAM usage: 543.3 MB
5:31:53: Physical RAM usage: 544.7 MB
5:31:55: Physical RAM usage: 550.9 MB
36 Seconds Elapse...
Scrolling Previously viewed Album Art
5:32:31: Physical RAM usage: 684.6 MB
5:32:33: Physical RAM usage: 688.6 MB
5:32:35: Physical RAM usage: 688.6 MB
5:32:37: Physical RAM usage: 686.9 MB
5:32:39: Physical RAM usage: 686.2 MB
5:32:41: Physical RAM usage: 685.4 MB
5:32:43: Physical RAM usage: 684.6 MB
5:32:45: Physical RAM usage: 683.9 MB
5:32:47: Physical RAM usage: 682.9 MB
5:32:49: Physical RAM usage: 682.2 MB
5:32:51: Physical RAM usage: 681.4 MB
Begin Scrolling new Album Art
5:33:13: Physical RAM usage: 687.1 MB
5:33:15: Physical RAM usage: 696.7 MB
5:33:17: Physical RAM usage: 702.9 MB
5:33:19: Physical RAM usage: 718.8 MB
5:33:21: Physical RAM usage: 722.8 MB
5:33:23: Physical RAM usage: 733.2 MB
5:33:25: Physical RAM usage: 748.1 MB
5:33:27: Physical RAM usage: 757.1 MB
5:33:29: Physical RAM usage: 774.0 MB
5:33:31: Physical RAM usage: 777.8 MB
5:33:33: Physical RAM usage: 781.3 MB
5:33:35: Physical RAM usage: 784.5 MB
5:33:37: Physical RAM usage: 789.2 MB
5:33:39: Physical RAM usage: 795.3 MB
5:33:41: Physical RAM usage: 801.6 MB
5:33:43: Physical RAM usage: 812.2 MB
5:33:45: Physical RAM usage: 825.6 MB
5:33:47: Physical RAM usage: 836.1 MB
5:33:49: Physical RAM usage: 843.7 MB
5:33:51: Physical RAM usage: 858.2 MB
5:33:52: Physical RAM usage: 868.4 MB
5:33:54: Physical RAM usage: 885.9 MB
5:33:56: Physical RAM usage: 899.3 MB
5:33:58: Physical RAM usage: 906.7 MB
5:34:00: Physical RAM usage: 916.0 MB
5:34:02: Physical RAM usage: 927.6 MB
5:34:04: Physical RAM usage: 937.7 MB
5:34:06: Physical RAM usage: 950.8 MB
5:34:08: Physical RAM usage: 950.0 MB
5:34:10: Physical RAM usage: 962.8 MB
5:34:12: Physical RAM usage: 980.1 MB
5:34:14: Physical RAM usage: 996.0 MB
5:34:16: Physical RAM usage: 1,008.2 MB
5:34:18: Physical RAM usage: 1,010.3 MB
5:34:20: Physical RAM usage: 1,018.3 MB
5:34:22: Physical RAM usage: 1,018.1 MB
5:34:24: Physical RAM usage: 1,018.3 MB
5:34:26: Physical RAM usage: 1,019.5 MB
5:34:28: Physical RAM usage: 1,019.5 MB
5:34:30: Physical RAM usage: 1,019.2 MB
5:34:32: Physical RAM usage: 1,016.5 MB
5:34:34: Physical RAM usage: 1,017.9 MB
5:34:36: Physical RAM usage: 1,015.8 MB
Switched to iTunes "classic" view
5:34:38: Physical RAM usage: 566.3 MB
5:34:40: Physical RAM usage: 564.4 MB
5:34:42: Physical RAM usage: 563.6 MB
5:34:44: Physical RAM usage: 562.8 MB
5:34:46: Physical RAM usage: 562.1 MB
5:34:48: Physical RAM usage: 559.3 MB
5:34:50: Physical RAM usage: 558.6 MB
------------ End of Test --------------
I think this shows the story quite clearly...
I dropped 500 MB in 2 seconds upon closing "Album View"
Hopefully a patch is coming soon...

How to fix huge iTunes memory leak in 64-bit Windows 7?

iTunes likes to allocate as much as 1.6GB of memory on my dual-quad XEON 8GB 64-Bit Windows computer and then becomes unresponsive.
This can happen several times a day and has been going on for as long as I can remember. No other software that I use does this - only Apple's iTunes. Each version I have installed of iTunes appears to have this same memory leak. Currently I am running version 10.7.0.21.
I love iTunes when it works. But having to constantly kill and relaunch the app throughout the day is bringing me down.
Searching for a fix for this on the internet just surfaces more and more complaints about this problem - but without a solution.
Having written shrinkwrapped software for end users as well as for large corporations and governments for more than 25 years I know a thing or two about software. A leak like this should take no more than a day or two to locate using modern software tools and double that to fix it. So why with each new version of iTunes does this problem persist? iTunes for Windows is the flagship software product Apple makes for non-Mac users - yet they continue to pass up each opportunity they have had over the years with each new release to fix this issue. Why is this?
Either the software engineers are not that good or they have been told NOT to spend time on this issue. I personally believe that the engineers at Apple are very good, and therefore am left thinking that the latter is more likely the case. Maybe this is to coax people to purchase a Mac so that they can finally run iTunes without these egregious memory leaks. I would like to offer another issue to consider.
Just as Amazon sold Kindles and Google sold Nexus tablets at low cost - not counting on margin for profit - but instead they wanted to saturate the marketplace with tools for making future purchases of content almost trivial to do with their devices. Apple also counts on this model with their pricer hardware - but they also have iTunes. Instead of trying to get people to switch to a MAC by continuing to avoid fixing this glaring issue in iTunes for Windows I would like to suggest that by allowing their engineers to address this issue that Apple will help keep Windows users from jumping ship to another music app. The profit to be made by keeping those Windows users happy and wedded to the iTunes store is obvious.
By continuing to keep this leak in iTunes for Windows all it does is lower my esteem for the company and start to make me wonder if the software is just as buggy on Macs.

I have same issue. Ongoing for more than 1 year and currently running iTunes 11.3.
My PC is Dell OptiPlex 990 I7 processor, 8GB ram, W7 64 [always keep things patched up to latest OS updates etc]
I use this iTunes install to stream music videos etc to multiple appleTVs, ipads, iphones etc .. via Home Sharing
Store all my media including music, videos and apps on separate NAS .. so the iTunes running on PC is only doing the traffic cop role and streaming / using files stored on NAS .. creates lots of IO across my network
Previous troubleshooting suggest possible contributing causes include
a) podcast updates .. until recently I had this auto updates on multiple podcast subscriptions, presumably the iTunes would flow this from the PC to save on the NAS across the network .. if the memory leak is in the iTunes network communication layer (?bonjour?) this may be sensitive to IO that would not normally occur if the iTunes file saving was local on the same PC
b) app updates .. have 200+ apps in my library and there is always a batch of updates .. some updates 100s of MB is size .. routinely see 500MB to 1GB of updates in single update run .. all my apps are
c) streaming music / movies .. seems when we ramp up streamlining of music or movies . memory leak grows faster .. ie within hours of clean start
c) large syncs of music or videos to ipads or iphones .. noticed that get big problems when I rebuild an ipad .. I typically have 60+ GB of data in terms of apps / music / videos to load .. have to do rebuild in phases due to periodic lockups

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