Roon server keeps using more and more RAM even sitting idle

[Robem]

@Mark_Castle

After a few days Roon becomes unstable and I intermittently lose connection to the core. If I restart Linux on the machine hosting the core Roon will then run flawlessly for a few days until the instability returns. This behavior is consistent and repeatable.

I had exactly the same symptoms as you describe here, I implemented the swappiness setting described in the thread that I linked below and the symptoms are now no longer present.

Roon Server memory (RAM) consumption on Linux without vm.swappiness = 0

Roon Core Machine MiniPC Intel NUC11ATKC4, Intel Celeron N5105, 16 GB RAM, WD Blue SN570 2TB NVMe with Linux Mint 21.1 Kernel 5.19. Roon Server Version 2.0 (build 1234) Networking Gear & Setup Details Ethernet Connected Audio Devices RopieeeXL → DACs Number of Tracks in Library around 65,000 Description of Issue Switched from Mac mini M1 to a dedicated Linux machine and quickly noticed a RAM consumption of Roon Appliance well over 10 GB. After some research I found the advice…