Bug Report Memory leak when viewing properties

[compucat]

Sorry to necro this, but this issue has resurfaced. Confirmed on Ubuntu 19.10 using both PPA version of OBS and freshly compiled from Git source. Tested with Radeon Vega 56 using both 19.10 mesa drivers and oibaf's nightly mesa PPA.

EDIT: never mind, I see that this has already been filed as a bug.

 

[LinuxAP]

Hey compucat, we're seeing the same thing on our side on boxes with similar specs: AMD Radeon RX580 on Ubuntu 19.10.
Do you see the same problem using other DEs?

 

[compucat]

@LinuxAP: I narrowed down the issue and linked my findings in the bug report. Essentially, mesa has a nasty memory leak on AMD GPUs that's made its way into Ubuntu's stable release and is still unfixed in latest nightlies. Bug here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/issues/1426

I'm currently leak-testing my system after downgrading libgl1-mesa-dri (both i386 and amd64 packages) to 19.0.8 (the ubuntu 19.04 release), and things seem to be working well so far. (Didn't want to bother compiling a custom Mesa yet)

 

[LinuxAP]

@compucat thanks for the update. I'll have to try the same on my end and see if it helps as well. Was the downgrade a pain to do?

 

[LinuxReborn]

People are saying this is a Mesa problem and it probably is; however, if you download the unofficial app image of OBS studio then this memory leak does not happen. Anyone experiencing this issue might want to try the unofficial image seeing how as it stands currently the official OBS is sorta unusable. https://github.com/probonopd/obs-studio/releases/continuous