Windows Media Player - The Ultimate Resource Hog!

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

This is a very nasty bug in Windows Media Player 9, to make it eat up all of your RAM, and all of your virtual memory, do the following steps

1) Start Windows Media Player 9
2) Put it in Media Library Mode
3) Leave for 5 hours
4) Take a look at the memory usage

You then should get something like this:

I wondered why my system started slowing up a lot of days in a row and seeming to be low on RAM, now I know why. Something Microsoft needs to fix methinks.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Wow, sure is nasty. Luckily for me I rarely use Windows Media Player - I like Winamp much better Very Happy

Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:18 pm (20 years, 5 months ago)

Yeah. I always use winamp. Only ever use WMP to play movies (have yet to find a decent movie player to use Very Happy

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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:51 pm (20 years, 5 months ago)

I personally use XMMS and GXine Very Happy

hehe

why would you leave it running in library mode for five hours?

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

I went out and I left WMP running in the list of music I had on the PC, you wouldn't have thought a static list would have took up 300MB or Ram, cos it doesn't actually do anything, but still.

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 6:40 am (20 years, 5 months ago)

for movies I use linux os.
i dont know if geeks tweaked something that all the pr0n looks very good in tux but not so good on windows (uptil xp). xp does have better support, but still lacks the quality that linux gives me Very Happy

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:53 am (20 years, 4 months ago)

lmao..."Linux, the number one OS for porn!"

Junior WebHelper Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 21

Windows Media player has never done that for me, but I still use Winamp, for EVERYTHING. Video or audio otherwise.

My Musical Preferences · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 9:36 pm (20 years, 4 months ago)

I hate WMP and love my QCD Very Happy