unity-music-daemon using a huge amount of ram

Just to provide a reference. On my 32-bit machine the unity-music-daemon uses only 3 mb of ram! So this is definitely a bug. However waiting for other 64-bit users to confirm this first.

I'm using 12.04 64 bit and it takes up 1 GB of RAM! I have a huge music collection, yes, but it shouldn't be taking up more RAM than the music player itself.

What precisely do you mean with "huge" JG?

PS: You can quickly count the number of files under your music folder by running this command in a terminal: "find ~/Music | wc -l"

I'm on my other machine now, music directory counts 12674 files, occupying 68,8 gb of space...in this system too unity-music-daemon is using 126 mb of ram.

According to the command you gave, there are 87245 files in my music folder (stored on an external drive). The number of actual songs is 58382 according to Rhythmbox.

There are some simple optimizations we could do to deal with this (like using ref-counted strings to store the albums / artist names).

oh yeah, mine is a mere 400 files since I mostly use spotify..that's probably why the memory usage is also small.

yeah, I'm having the same issue with the unity-music-daemon. I have 64 gigs of music on my computer and its using around 300mb of ram that I can see.....wouldn't be an issue if my aging laptop didn't only have 2 gigs of ram and I have become addicted to chrome which eats of tons of memory as it is

maybe just an option to turn off the lens?

still no change for me, unity-music-daemon "eat" 524MB of ram, all updates done, see attached picture

Fix commited does not mean Fix released. This fix, according to the milestone, is part of Unity 5.10 and the repos still have 5.8.

This bug was fixed in the package unity-lens-music - 5.10.0-0ubuntu1

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unity-lens-music (5.10.0-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - unity-music-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in find_term_real() from
      dee_tree_index_lookup() from dee_index_lookup() from
      unity_music_lens_rhythmbox_collection_search() (LP: #963991)
    - unity-music-daemon using a huge amount of ram (LP: #964684)
  * debian/control:
    - as there is no more banshee u1 music store, make unity-scope-musicstores
      dep on rhythmbox-ubuntuone (LP: #969271)
    - removing libxml2-dev build-dep
    - bump Standards-Version to latest
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:41:51 +0200

I'm running version 5.12.0-0ubuntu1 of unity-lens-music and memory consumption is at 170 MB of ram. Any suggestions?