Roon Core Machine
Mac Mini M1 8gb. Monterey 12.5. Current Roon build.
Networking Gear & Setup Details
Asus AX86
Connected Audio Devices
Sonos Connect, Wiim Mini, Apple TV 4K wireless.
Mac Mini direct connection.
Number of Tracks in Library
60,0000
Description of Issue
I’ve been constantly surprised and annoyed by the memory greed of Roon. A few months back I replaced my 2014 Mini with an M1 in an attempt to eliminate the dropouts and forced restarts.
Until yesterday I had Monterey 12.2 on my core machine. It required a a Roon restart every few days when memory usage went from 2.2gb after restart to over 9gb.
Whilst I have a few endpoints, and sometimes use DSP, this doesn’t seem to make a difference.
Based on some positive reports here about the latest versions of Monterey and the latest Roon I upgraded to Monterey 12.5.
It may have been optimism, but at first it seem like the memory issues were better. The 2.2gb from the restart had only edged up to 2.5gb over night.
During the day it edged up to 2.7gb, playing two endpoints.
Then I opened Apple Music to tweak a playlist and things went haywire.
Roon started to repeatedly drop its connection and memory usage went from 3gb to over 10gb in a matter of minutes.
Nothing was playing.
I was curious how hight it would go, but figured it was wiser to force quit.
I have tried the Orbit fix mentioned in other threads.
Is there a fix for this? Will there be a fix for this?
I should not have to restart Roon every couple of days. I should not have hd to upgrade my computer and my router to cater to Roon’s whims.
Apple Music and Tidal Connect are rock solid. My network speed is 1200mbps. My internet speed is 580mbps.
How do I get Roon to actually work?
Do I need to switch to Rock Nuc?