SC 7.3 . . . . oink, oink, oink!

[sgmlaw]

Installed 7.3 this morning. This thing loves to eat resources. Between the resident app, the browser load, and java, it's consuming near 350mb of RAM. Yikes. The app runs considerably slower, too. And this is on an Athlon 64 system with a gig of RAM. It's almost like suffering with a Symantec suite. Ouch.

[CatBus]

Since you're including the browser and Java in the mix, I'm assuming what you're really complaining about is SqueezePlay, not SqueezeCenter.

Taking a look at the roadmap (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SoftwareRoadmap) you'll see that even in the released version on SqueezeCenter 7.3, SqueezePlay will still be beta. So if you want a production-quality SoftSqueeze/SqueezePlay experience, to may want to skip 7.3, because it's not gonna be there.

For those of us who don't use SqueezePlay, SC7.3 doesn't seem unusual resources-wise--maybe just a touch lighter than before.

[bklaas]

350MB of RAM is a far bigger footprint than should be seen with SqueezeCenter. There has to be something else going on to cause that. Maybe with a little more information we could narrow down what the problem is...

FYI, there is no java in either SqueezePlay or SqueezeCenter.

#!/ben

[radish]

I think he's saying that SC + Browser + SoftSqueeze = 350 mb.

[Klaus]

here it's working fine, but using about 100mb of memory...

[sgmlaw]

SC 7.3 consumes about 150mb itself, about the same as other SC7 versions.

But Firefox (3.0.4) jumps to over 130mb when the SC is opened. Close SC, and the browser load jumps back down to about 30-40mb (typical). That is new.

I do run SoftSqueeze on several client systems, but not on the server system.

Java runs around 30mb, which is about normal.

I'm not seriously complaining, as the SW is free after all. But it does eat more resources than I'd like to see.

[Howard Passman]

Running SC and browser way under 100mb on mine..

Is your scanner running maybe??

Howard

[snarlydwarf]

a bit over 100M for me, but then it's always been that, not any different than 7.2 was. Most of my bloat is a ton of plugins. I like plugins.

(The server has 2G of RAM, so 100M is nothing.)

[HectorHughMunro]

Overall, it's better for me. The artwork is better and the radio stations better organized. It's good to see the BBC properly dealt with but better quality Iplayer feeds aren't provided.

Overall feels less buggy. It's a worthwhile upgrade.

[Moonbase]

Here (Windows, just scanning):

SqueezeTray.exe 11 MB
mysqld.exe 15 MB
SqueezeCenter.exe 91 MB
scanner.exe 59 MB

totals 176 MB

firefox.exe 94 MB (only SC start page open)

Forgot any?