Can the memory increase improve performance?

[RTaylor3rd (Rudy Taylor)]

I just increased the memory on my Nucleus+ from its original 8gb to 32gb. I did it bc it felt like the Nucleus was getting sluggish. The collection is about 12k+ CDs, 140k+ tracks. The improvement was immediately noticeable, especially when navigating Focus and Roon Radio playback. Just an FYI for those approaching the Nucleus performance max.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Are you sure it was the RAM? Because the designers of the Nucleus and Roon OS have said many times that this is not possible (with Roon OS).

[WiWavelength (Andrew J Shepherd)]

Beyond any placebo effect, what users fail to take into account is that a RAM install requires a power off and restart. That reboot by itself tends to improve performance for a time on many Roon servers.

AJ

[RTaylor3rd (Rudy Taylor)]

Yes I’m sure.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Maybe the new memory is a faster type then, or a restart (and possibly the recent Roon performance updates) helped. Roon OS does not swap to disk and it either has enough memory or it doesn’t (and then it crashes)

Nucleus Memory Upgrade

A symptom of needing RAM is a crash, nothing else. Roon OS does not have a swap file or do anything else memory based on the SSD. It’s all in RAM. If you added RAM, you shouldn’t feel any changes other than “its not crashing anymore”. If you weren’t crashing before, adding RAM will not cause your system to speed up (Nucleus doesn’t swap), and should have zero other impact other than growth potential. Roon doesn’t use more RAM just because it has access to it.