Of course, I don’t know what changes were made, but this is the first time in a very long time that Server continues to perform weeks later like it does after a restart. Absolutely fantastic!
More please.
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I just had a look at my Roon Server and it appears to be leaking memory at a lower rate (if at all). However, it is hard to be sure because I haven’t been paying much attention to memory.
Since Christmas, I have found that, in general, my need to restart Roon Server because of memory exhaustion issues is less frequent than the arrival of updates to the Roon Server application itself and thus, although, I have observed a small memory leak, it has never got to the point where a manual restart was required.
Before Christmas, I used to have a cron job on my diepi hosted server that automated the stopping and restarting of the Roon Server application every week but I found this to be unnecessary.
Of course, I am running with a small (by the standards of many/most on these forums) library and my database structure and use patters may be very different from other and so my experience is in no way a suggestion that the same should be true for others.
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Before build 1525, I was having to restart Server weekly. Long delays loading an album (local); long delays adding to Library, etc. Now when I start to see the “jellyfish” rear its ugly head, it only lasts for a moment (or two) before the process continues to execute. Fantastic!
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I have recently gone from automated daily Roon service restarts to weekly without any issues, but I put it down to significant improvements to the settings and memory of my DietPi based Roon server DNS (which have really made Roon artist and searches faster) and removing my Qobuz and Tidal accounts from Roon.
It’s good that other user’s are seeing this without any other changes so that sounds promising. Maybe I will move the Roon service restarts to monthly and see how that goes.
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It might be worth an experiment. On Dietpi it’s not exactly an onerous thing to do if you created a separate script to do just the Roon Server restart - simply moving the script from cron.weekly to cron.monthly.
On the other hand a restart should never do any harm so it’s not likely to gain you anything significant either - unless, of course, like me, you are an insomniac who regularly gets up in the night to listen to some appropriate music only to find that, just after starting, you get an annoying scheduled restart.
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Well I am a late night listener, and don’t generally get up too early so a 5 AM Roon restart after a 4 AM backup is generally not going to cause a problem for me.
Given some of the mentioned improvements would suggest that this would be a reasonable idea when I stop traveling
I’ve not noticed any difference. The release notes just say:
Very intriguing!
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The whole note is less intriguing:
Good but not very exciting 
(Though they sneaked some minor fixes in as well)
However, the OP surely referred to the previous update:
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This was a problem for me. I generally waited for the first signs of trouble before restarting (at one stage two to three times weekly. It has been quite a while since I have had to do a restart for performance issues. It is good to note that they also seem to have fixed the album loading issue - which was another reason to do a restart.
Good grief. 4AM is when I wake up on a good night!
All my maintenance cron jobs and backups are scheduled to happen between 00:30 and 03:00 with Roon related jobs happening between 01:30 and 02:30. My synology backups are scheduled earlier because they can, on occasion, take quite a long time and I want them to finish before I get up if at all possible.
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I have noticed that Roon is loading very much faster now. Super snappy. Very happy 
I don’t know if this is something the devs expected to happen, but man I hope that the crew at Roon are reading this, because it’s very very nice to hear (as a former executive leading engineers) they need all the good feedback they can get… they need to store it up, because when things don’t work, they hear that even louder 
I say this while on a 15 hour flight to Hong Kong, listening to Roon on my Sony XM5’s, happily trading some sound quality for noise cancellation, and enjoying the combination of my own music with some qobuz selections streaming via my core over tailscale and into my phone over WiFi in mid-pacific. I’m not saying that always works… but when it does it’s pretty magic.
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Maybe the OP should move it to Feedback
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@noris , can you make sure Enno or Danny or someone that counts sees all these fantastic responses? Thanks!
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Are any of you running on MacOS Sequoia? I am still petrified to update my iMac over Roon.
thanks,
Sean Browne
Not my experience - I am still having issue with using Roon, it is so inconsistent that it is driving me away from using it. Last month I deleted Roon and all my backups and just started fresh which worked but now I am back to “waiting for server” and or starting and stopping tracks.
I have the core on my IMac and I am just sending the music to a Marantz cd50n through the app on my iPad. I just don’t understand why it is finicky. I love it when it works but come on. I am listening to Apple Music as I write this because it just works. Do people still have these issues if they use the Nucleus one?
I see that you had raised a Support request the last time, which got closed after there was no further reply to the Support team from yourself.
It appears that you are still experiencing issues and I suggest that you open a new Support request.
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Based on (some, not all) users with Mac’s running into similar troubles following recent MacOS updates I would lean towards running Roon on another OS. Whether that be Windows or Linux will depend on what else you have to hand. Some may recommend ROCK so you can build your own standalone Roon (server).
But as @geoff mentions, or he could reopen your original support thread so you can update Roon Support and they can continue with your support.
The thread here is about performance improvements in a working Roon. You have a completely different problem where Roon isn’t working at all for you.
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What exactly is leaking memory?