High memory usage even when doing "nothing"

[LucaNonato]

Since 16/06/2022, most likely due to a Windows 10 update, OBS started eating up 1 MB of RAM every 5-10 seconds. This occurs even when i simply open it, with no active streaming nor recording.

Tried searching issues on GitHub but found nothing.

The logs analyzer reports nothing wrong: https://obsproject.com/logs/8ylG5G4HiYcqpyIF

What else can i check? PC is running Windows 10 Pro 21H2 x64 (Up-to-date at 05/07/2022) with:
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10400 CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz
- 8,00 GB RAM
- SSD Kingston SKC600256G
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 with driver 473.47

To prevent a system-wide crash, or being unable to remotely connect this PC, i force quit the process and then reopen it every few hours but this is very annoying.

Next time i relaunch it i'll try using verbose mode.

If you need more data/details, just ask.


Cheers!
Luca

 

[Tubaaja]

I have this extact same problem!

If I leave obs running it causes a some short of memory leack and ends up eating all of (edit: 32gb) my ram.
This effect is highly stronger when I record minecraft via game capture.

I tried to look into it but it seems that something like this already happened to ppl around 2013
I have no idea if this is anyway related but the issue seems to be highly similiar. I cannot leave obs running by it self and must close it every 1hr or so.

Here is the old report if it has any use:

Bug Report - High ram usage

In the latest version (0.541) when I stream Minecraft my ram usage for java.exe goes through the roof. After about 50 minutes of streaming java.exe was using around 15GB and causing my game to stutter. Here is the log from the stream and yes I know this is from the test version but this is...

obsproject.com

 

[LucaNonato]

Updated to 28.0.1 (almost?) as soon as it was available, but no luck: at first it looked like it was fixed, having the memory usage grow a little, then flipping back to a lower value, but in the end it still keep growing and growing.

Cheers!

 

[pandaXguy]

I have the same issue but only when running 2 instances of OBS, I am on WIndows 11 latest build, and OBS 28.1.1 the problem has gotten worse with the last 2 updates, atleast it seems that way.