Intel NUC8i5. Roon server is runs in a docker environment installed on PhotonOS on ESXi.
4CPUs and 8GB of RAM for the VM Roon is installed on.
Roon Server build 1365
Networking Gear & Setup Details
Roon Server (Intel NUC) and Roon Client Mac mini) are connected via a Cisco CBS350 switch.
Connected Audio Devices
Mac mini M2 Pro 16Gb RAM
macOS 14.3
Roon Client build 1365
Topping D10 balanced
Number of Tracks in Library
37,000
Description of Issue
Right after startup memory usage of Roon on MacOS is below 1GB. After some days memory usage goes up to 16GB. See screenshot:
The music is stored on a qnap NAS. I mounting the file share in Roon Server directly.
What is the benefit of running running Roon Server on my Mac Mini? That doesn‘t meet my requirements. I need to run Roon Server on a machine that up 24/7.
Our development team is curious if the same issue occurs when the Mac Mini is serving as your server - there isn’t a specific benefit to this setup, it would be helpful for our analysis on the issue.
At moment I don’t have time to move over my Roon server to the Mac Mini. But I guess that Ralf’s post shows that the issue also occurs if the server is running on a Mac:
Until you can set your Roon Server up in a way that falls within the scope of support, there isn’t much I’m able to proceed with. Let me know when things change and I’ll be more than happy to help.
We wish we had the bandwidth as a team to support the multitude of VMs, but enterprise-class hypervisors are outside of the scope of support for Roon. There should be expert users in Tinkering who can assist you.
This is absolutely disappointing and frustrating. I reported the problem for the first time Feb. 8th. I already told you which infrastructure I was using. Benjamin told me that the Roon server runs in a Docker environment and that this is not supported by Roon. Ok, this is understandable for me. After all, you do not provide an official Docker container for Roon. In order to get support, I have moved my Roon server to an Ubuntu installation. Now it is suddenly also a problem that Ubuntu is running in an ESXi environment. Sorry, from the customer’s point of view this is not very understandable:
In your knowledge base, you recommend an up-to-date Linux distribution - which is exactly what I use.
The actual problem does not occur on the server. It’s on my Mac Mini M2 pro. The Roon client is currently using 12GB of memory again. Roon Client on MacOS is supported, isn’t it? So why don’t have closer look to that?
I don’t have the impression that you have even looked at the issue. Instead, you are rather looking for reasons not to solve the problem.
Have been having similar issues for a few months despite multiple updates.
My M2 Mac is rendered pretty much useless about once a week when Roon (client) climbs to use 50GB+ of memory. Not something I want to manually check on.
Can support confirm that this is indeed a server issue? It seems very odd that the client is so brittle and vulnerable to that… Although maybe not with how riddled with bugs the client is and has always been.
