Roon CPU spikes

[Magnus]

Roon Core Machine

Desktop computer, Windows 10, Ryzen 9 5950x CPU, 32G memory

Networking Gear & Setup Details

Connected Audio Devices

Number of Tracks in Library

Unknown, but not that much maybe a few hundred CDs (a few thousand tunes).

Description of Issue

Roon spikes one core every now and then, especially after started or after it has been idle for a while. In itself this might not be that bad (but then again maybe it is, haven’t tested), but I also use HQPlayer and the result during these spikes is that the music gets interrupted several times (like a 1 second pause) during the CPU spike. The CPU spikes lasts about 10-20 seconds.

I have set “Background analysis speed” and “On-demand analysis speed” to throttled but that didn’t help. I also did a clean up of the library.

[Marin_Weigel (Bram Stoker's Cappuccino)]

@Magnus

… I … set … analysis … to throttled …

What happens, if you set them to “off” as a test?

Maybe your solution is to run HQP on a separate machine…

[Mikael_Ollars]

Please give us a performance view of your machine?
My freshly built Core is playing music at this time, running for about 20hours or so.

(I restored a backup from another Win Core yesterday so it didn’t have to analyze 150K files)

[Magnus]

This when playing music and nothing else, Roon is behaving at this time so takes around 0.3% CPU, the rest is HQPlayer

But it seems like setting both library-analysis to “Off” made a difference, no problem since I did that. But I don’t want them off for other reasons.

[Magnus]

FYI: no DSP, volume levelling or anything else in Roon.

[Marin_Weigel (Bram Stoker's Cappuccino)]

@Magnus

But I don’t want them off for other reasons.

Well, just switch it off for trouble-free listening sessions and then back on for letting house keeping take over while not listening?!

Roon just can’t make it a set-it and-forget-it smooth ride for all use cases and all set-up combinations - bunch of losers