I like your sense of humour! This thread was started in February and referenced 9 earlier threads, the oldest of which was started in 2016, although it’s fair to say that most of the complaints have been raised in the past two years
@dylan, on last Feb 18th I started this topic with reference to earlier threads (some from long time ago). On May 20th you wrote that RoonLabs is investigating this issue and that it has priority. I am curious about the status of it. Can you tell us more?
Thanks in advance for your reply!
Another thread, started two days ago…
On my Synology, I added a Task in the Task Scheduler to Stop then Start again the Roon Service.
It was driving me crazy…
Hi @dylan What do you think about this suggestion? If the real solution is still some time away, it would go at least some way towards addressing an acknowledged problem and should be quick and simple to implement. You might even make it the default option to stop this steady stream of new threads on the subject. And I guess that there are many more users who suffer in silence, or simply give up on Roon.
Hi everyone,
Our team has been tracking these reports, both here and in other places on community. I wanted to provide an update on where these issues stand.
We typically see performance issues like this happening on macOS or Linux setups. Windows and RoonOS work a bit different under the hood and so those platforms tend to perform much better in this area. The good news is there is work underway to improve some low-level architecture on macOS and Linux that we believe will be a big improvement. We don’t have any timelines we can provide at the moment, but work is already in process and we’ll be sure to update everyone when we can.
There are also specific bugs we’ve found — One specific to RoonOS which was fixed recently, and another related to network changes on Linux. A solution for the latter is currently in development as well.
We understand that this has been a frustrating issue for many, and we are hopeful that these changes will help alleviate many of the issues that have been reported.
In the meantime, if you’re using a larger library, our recommendation continues to be that you use a RoonOS or Windows Core for optimal results.
Thanks to everyone who has reached out to us about this!
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Thank you Dylan,
You brought me back into the community with those lines. I like it when problems can be addressed and a qualified team works on them.
Certainly not every point of view or problem analysis will always be correct, but if there are substantive discussions and team activities, we are closer to a solution than if only silence and resignation dominate this community.
Keep it up
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Hi Dylan,
Thanks for your information. I am really frustrated that my i9 64Gb mac is terrible slow and does not work properly.
I hope you will find the solution for MacOs very soon.
Thanks
Best Regards
Akos
Thanks for the update Dylan. And please keep us posted!
Just coming in from my other post with an update because that post has been closed. 3 days later, another gig of memory is being used. Now at 5.24G.
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I think we have two problems to solve:
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an ever-increasing memory requirement is building up.
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the system becomes unbearably slow with increasing use and database size.
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the integration of Qobuz
The first point concerns MacOS and Linux derivatives from the Debian family. With Arch derivatives (Manjaro) I could not verify this and my huge Windwos10 database (1.4 million titles) also constantly shows around 70 % memory utilisation with 16 GB physical main memory. But this does not protect me from the second problem.Manjaro and Windows also need to be restarted after prolonged use so that everything runs smoothly again.
With Qobuz, some have also observed that albums disappear and reappear days later. Qobuz itself is working on a solution. Unfortunately, I don’t have the possibility to use my Qobuz subscription via Roon yet, but Tidal plays perfectly and my collection also offers enough great playing possibilities 
For point 1, Dylan has already lit a small light of hope here. Good luck and good ideas in developing this solution.
Solution for point 3:
I seem to have reached the limit given that now 4 days later memory usage has only increased by 300MB. I have however not really been using Roon, though I couldn’t really say I was using it much previously either. I will see if it spikes again after my next usage. Knowing that it only climbs when being used might be helpful.
@support, yesterday I update Roon Core to version 846 on my Synology DiskStation with DSM 6.2.4-25556 Update 2 (Linux).
From that moment on, the memory leakage issue seems to have been solved on my machine. Over the past few hours, Roon Core’s memory usage has remained about the same. The memory usage has even decreased somewhat compared to the previous Roon Core version. I will keep it monitoring and keep you informed.
Thanks for all your work.
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Thank you so much for this update, this is very welcome news! Please do let us know if you see any reoccurrence of your previous issues. If not, we’ll call this solved!
I’ll think, that it is to early to say, that the memory leak issue is solved.
It seems, that with 1.8 846 memory will allocated more dynamical and frees up sometimes, but we’ve to wait some days/weeks without restarting Roon to see, if there is a memory leak or not.
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Joy and hope may remain until this or another problem hits us. Technical experience inevitably leads to the realization that nothing may remain without maintenance.
Hey @Burkhardt_Petermann,
I stand corrected, what I mean to say was that hopefully we can call it sussed for @Alfred_van_Hoorn’s particular experience. Sorry to have made that unclear and provide the impression that we were stitching this up without appropriate due diligence. 
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I’ll only know in a few days with any certainty if 846 has solved this on my Synology … but after 6 hours the signs are positive. 
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Sure, we hope all, that the issue is solved 
But it can be different, in using a lot of endpoints, dsps or changing (import/export) files.
I’m also since many years software developer for bigger and critical systems and I know, that’s hard to fix really all memory leaks in complex systems.