WMP11 RAM Usage

Why so much RAM usage? What is going on in the background with WMP11? Just
playing a 4GB playlist, and on XP, WMP never gets much above 20MB. What's
the deal? Oh, and if you add mfpmp.exe, that's another 10MB or so. Since
the screenshot, it has dropped down to 88MB, but that's still way too high.
Anyone else having this issue?

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/...ramusagesg0.jpg

Odd. I minimized WMP11 to the taskbar, and the RAM usage went from 88MB
down to 5MB. I then restored WMP11 back from the taskbar and now it's only
using 11MB of RAM instead of 88MB. Is this is a bug? If so, it's too late
now. I'm using RC2 Build 5744 (x86) by the way, if that helps any. Thanks
guys.
"Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
news:eZhcCteDHHA.572@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Why so much RAM usage? What is going on in the background with WMP11?
> Just playing a 4GB playlist, and on XP, WMP never gets much above 20MB.
> What's the deal? Oh, and if you add mfpmp.exe, that's another 10MB or so.
> Since the screenshot, it has dropped down to 88MB, but that's still way
> too high. Anyone else having this issue?
>
> http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/...ramusagesg0.jpg

Is your video ram shared or dedicated? I would SWAG that if your video ram
is shared, that may be why you're seeing the numbers you're seeing.
Maximized (or windowed....) would use more vid ram than minimized. If that
vid ram is shared with the system ram...

Lang

"Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
news:upC2vweDHHA.3676@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Odd. I minimized WMP11 to the taskbar, and the RAM usage went from 88MB
> down to 5MB. I then restored WMP11 back from the taskbar and now it's
> only using 11MB of RAM instead of 88MB. Is this is a bug? If so, it's
> too late now. I'm using RC2 Build 5744 (x86) by the way, if that helps
> any. Thanks guys.
> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
> news:eZhcCteDHHA.572@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Why so much RAM usage? What is going on in the background with WMP11?
>> Just playing a 4GB playlist, and on XP, WMP never gets much above 20MB.
>> What's the deal? Oh, and if you add mfpmp.exe, that's another 10MB or
>> so. Since the screenshot, it has dropped down to 88MB, but that's still
>> way too high. Anyone else having this issue?
>>
>> http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/...ramusagesg0.jpg
>

Nope, it's dedicated. I've got an Ati Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 8x 256MB GDDR2
video card. Thanks.
"Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is your video ram shared or dedicated? I would SWAG that if your video ram
> is shared, that may be why you're seeing the numbers you're seeing.
> Maximized (or windowed....) would use more vid ram than minimized. If that
> vid ram is shared with the system ram...
>
> Lang
>
> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
> news:upC2vweDHHA.3676@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Odd. I minimized WMP11 to the taskbar, and the RAM usage went from 88MB
>> down to 5MB. I then restored WMP11 back from the taskbar and now it's
>> only using 11MB of RAM instead of 88MB. Is this is a bug? If so, it's
>> too late now. I'm using RC2 Build 5744 (x86) by the way, if that helps
>> any. Thanks guys.
>> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
>> news:eZhcCteDHHA.572@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> Why so much RAM usage? What is going on in the background with WMP11?
>>> Just playing a 4GB playlist, and on XP, WMP never gets much above 20MB.
>>> What's the deal? Oh, and if you add mfpmp.exe, that's another 10MB or
>>> so. Since the screenshot, it has dropped down to 88MB, but that's still
>>> way too high. Anyone else having this issue?
>>>
>>> http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/...ramusagesg0.jpg
>>
>

Not to sound like the typical fanboy but if you're playing music winamp is
an infinitely better program for it than WMP. I highly recommend it, I
personally can't stand WMP it tries to do everything and is mediocre because
of it.

It has the best skins, plugins, great audio decoders and uses significantly
less resources than WMP.

Mark


"Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
news:eZhcCteDHHA.572@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Why so much RAM usage? What is going on in the background with WMP11?
> Just playing a 4GB playlist, and on XP, WMP never gets much above 20MB.
> What's the deal? Oh, and if you add mfpmp.exe, that's another 10MB or so.
> Since the screenshot, it has dropped down to 88MB, but that's still way
> too high. Anyone else having this issue?
>
> http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/...ramusagesg0.jpg

You're probably looking at the working set size. This is the active memory
paged into main memory.

When you want to see the virtual memory you have to go to 'View->Select
Columns...' in the task manager and switch on 'Virtual Memory Size'.

Regards,
Ralf

"Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
news:upC2vweDHHA.3676@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Odd. I minimized WMP11 to the taskbar, and the RAM usage went from 88MB
> down to 5MB. I then restored WMP11 back from the taskbar and now it's
> only using 11MB of RAM instead of 88MB. Is this is a bug? If so, it's
> too late now. I'm using RC2 Build 5744 (x86) by the way, if that helps
> any. Thanks guys.
> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
> news:eZhcCteDHHA.572@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Why so much RAM usage? What is going on in the background with WMP11?
>> Just playing a 4GB playlist, and on XP, WMP never gets much above 20MB.
>> What's the deal? Oh, and if you add mfpmp.exe, that's another 10MB or
>> so. Since the screenshot, it has dropped down to 88MB, but that's still
>> way too high. Anyone else having this issue?
>>
>> http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/...ramusagesg0.jpg
>

My card in an nvidia chipset 7300GT 256MB and it uses 256mb of ram as well.
"Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
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> Nope, it's dedicated. I've got an Ati Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 8x 256MB GDDR2
> video card. Thanks.
> "Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:10972C38-4AAF-497E-A5EE-C3F47EA57834@microsoft.com...
>> Is your video ram shared or dedicated? I would SWAG that if your video
>> ram is shared, that may be why you're seeing the numbers you're seeing.
>> Maximized (or windowed....) would use more vid ram than minimized. If
>> that vid ram is shared with the system ram...
>>
>> Lang
>>
>> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
>> news:upC2vweDHHA.3676@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> Odd. I minimized WMP11 to the taskbar, and the RAM usage went from 88MB
>>> down to 5MB. I then restored WMP11 back from the taskbar and now it's
>>> only using 11MB of RAM instead of 88MB. Is this is a bug? If so, it's
>>> too late now. I'm using RC2 Build 5744 (x86) by the way, if that helps
>>> any. Thanks guys.
>>> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
>>> news:eZhcCteDHHA.572@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>> Why so much RAM usage? What is going on in the background with WMP11?
>>>> Just playing a 4GB playlist, and on XP, WMP never gets much above 20MB.
>>>> What's the deal? Oh, and if you add mfpmp.exe, that's another 10MB or
>>>> so. Since the screenshot, it has dropped down to 88MB, but that's still
>>>> way too high. Anyone else having this issue?
>>>>
>>>> http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/...ramusagesg0.jpg
>>>
>>
>