Who needs Photoshop when iTunes will steal all your RAM...

MagicBoy · 27 Oct 2008 at 21:37

Are Apple taking the michael?

Mac was rebooted earlier today, I've fired iTunes up and sync'd my iPod and left it playing music for about an hour.

MagicBoy · 27 Oct 2008 at 22:41

Cmd+Shift+4, then press space and click the window you want. Will appear using Stevie-J magic on your desktop.

Got it up to 640MB then it started to drop a bit. Might have had something to do with loading all my Apps to see if it was merely borrowing the RAM or making a bid to make iTunes the only app you'll ever need...

MagicBoy · 27 Oct 2008 at 23:07

That'd be it then. I've got it displayed in Coverflow while using Shuffle play. Quite a large library - 5000+ items.

Flipped back to list view and it's just dropped from 370MB to 200MB.

MagicBoy · 27 Oct 2008 at 23:13

No video in mine, just music and podcasts. RAM usage seems to back off if there's a load of other stuff open. I'm on 2GB RAM, anything over about 1.4GB allocated and iTunes backs off and lets Safari steal it instead

MagicBoy · 28 Oct 2008 at 13:08

Sounds like a nefarious plan to make me upgrade to a new MBP with lots of RAM.