Roon 1.8 (Build 846) Feedback - Linux Performance Improvements

Khang_Nguyen1 · November 6, 2021, 5:59pm

Open Roon on your iPad. It will pop up.

Simon_Bennett · November 7, 2021, 12:34am

Working a treat on my Antipodes S40. Feels much quicker to respond to inputs.

Nick_Yanakiev · November 7, 2021, 5:32pm

Thanks for this, was great testing the beta version.

Strangely enough my Chord Electronics 2Go has performed wonderfully for 3 straight days without a single dropout on Roon.

Only change has been the Roon software update.

Anyone else seeing better performance on wifi?

Spence_Marquart · November 8, 2021, 1:21am

Using Sonic Transporter i9. Roon seems to run a bit snappier but still have lagging issues when switching between tracks. Can take up to 10 seconds for a song to start playing. Was hoping I’d see improvement here but not the case. Hopefully they’re still working on this issue.

Antonio_Bendezu · November 8, 2021, 5:06pm

AudioLinux Roon server updated with no hiccups. Noticed marked improvements in responsiveness. Snappy.

Reinstalled AudioLinux, just to have a fresh install with this update. No problems. Still snappy.

Intel i7-3820; 32GB DDR3 RAM; also running samba server; 180k tracks. This update was really welcome.

Andreas_Philipp1 · November 8, 2021, 5:35pm

I think the better performance is really notorious from 80.000–100.000 tracks onwards. This was the threshold where I before used to experience performance degradation. I am now at 215.000 tracks, and for the last 5 days the new Roon Server for Linux has performed admirably, under constant heavy use.

It also is a clear example that throwing faster processors or more RAM at a badly-behaved server application doesn’t really make sense. My RAM usage now is at 4 GB +/- 10%. The Remote application on an iMac feels snappy and all previously experienced performance problems seem to have gone away.

Antonio_Bendezu · November 8, 2021, 6:07pm

Interesting. I wish I could remember when I saw the performance hits. I know I felt forced to move the server from a newer i3 NUC to the older i7 machine (8GB RAM to 32GB) at around 150k. That helped with the slowness a lot. AudioLinux gets updated a lot, it seems, so it’s probably too confounded to guess. I’m happy now, though.

Chester_Rieman · November 9, 2021, 2:00pm

Upgrade went well on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS running as a VM on ESXi 6.7u3.
Seems a little snappier and I see it using less memory.
Thanks!

SMANGELS · November 9, 2021, 3:22pm

I’m using the same Docker image and the update worked just fine for me as well. But I do not use the GUI at all due to that it is running in a headless environment.
What is good is that using a Docker image I’m able to serve roon clients in different subnets using Docker macvlan driver.

Stephen_Graham · November 9, 2021, 5:59pm

I run the Roon core on a Sonictransporter i5 and I can report SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT in file scanning speed and library updates. Consider this user very pleased with this update.

kentucky_slim · November 10, 2021, 2:33pm

1 week in and the mem usage has held pretty solid around 6 gig phyiscal. Playback performance is improved.

Andreas_Philipp1 · November 10, 2021, 3:01pm

I can confirm this. This server update really has made me recover confidence in Roon’s capabilities. I can now log out of my monitoring terminal session and simply assume that Roon is doing well.

jmvdv · November 10, 2021, 3:57pm

Responsiveness is certainly improved!

Spence_Marquart · February 9, 2022, 7:53pm

I’ve noticed my Sonic Transporter i9 runs better. But I do still get a lot of lagging switching between songs after 35 seconds in. Things like library scanning seems much smoother too. This is nice as I have a library with nearly 300K tracks. The only main issue is the lagging which I hope will be addressed with the next update.

Thanks!