What kind of performance/speed issue are you experiencing?
· The app takes a long time to respond to commands
Please try to reboot your Roon Server
· Yes, rebooting helps, but the issue returns after some time
Please try to reboot your networking gear (Router/Switches/etc.)
· No, the issue is still the same even after a reboot
Is there any change in behavior if you try to navigate to Roon Settings -> Library and set both Background and On-Demand Audio Analysis to Throttled or Off?
· No, the issue is still the same
Does the issue happen on multiple Roon Remotes (controllers) or just one?
· Issue happens on multiple remotes
Router Domain Name System (DNS) change
· I was able to change my router's DNS servers but it did not help
What is the operating system of your Roon Server host machine?
· Roon Optimized Core Kit (ROCK)
Timestamp of issue occurrences
· It happens every 3-5 days, latest slowdown on Juli 14th 2026 at 06:15PM
Describe the issue
My ROCK setup still gets slow after the latest firmware update, but the threshold is now 5 days instead of 3. Playback, search engine and home screen takes up to 1 min to start or load. This has been happening since March/April, when will this be sorted out? The only fix is a complete reboot of ROCK.
Thank you for your patience. We’ll of course investigate promptly.
We’ve gathered relevant diagnostics around the slowdown incident and escalated to development. Worth note, the heap growth is spiking around the time Roon readies the queue for a Denon grouped Zone; the queue looks to be around ~7000 tracks. We’ll follow up shortly when we learn more.
Strange, I have queued a large Tidal playlist (around 500 tracks) though. Is it played tracks that stays in the queue that makes the system slow down? In that case, when does Roon drop old queues?
Good question. There’s already an open ticket tracking improvements to this behavior, and R&D is actively working on it. We’re checking whether it lands as fixed in build 1674, but we don’t have an exact timeframe yet.
Once that release is out, could you please update to it and let us know whether the slowdown still occurs? If it does, please update this thread with what you’re seeing so we can keep digging.
There’s an Early Access release undergoing testing here that includes some of the aforementioned changes:
We expect those changes to be released soon in a public production update. Keep an eye on the Software Release Notes where we’ll detail any changes. Thank you!
The memory and performance improvements discussed in this thread are still undergoing testing in Early Access, and we anticipate they’ll be released in the upcoming Roon public update afterwards.
If you’d like to migrate to Early Access you can find instructions here. Otherwise, the wait won’t be much longer for a production release. Thank you!
