Question / Help My RAM spirals out of control

[Brett McCormick]

I've been streaming for a couple weeks now off and on no problem at all. Everything ran smoothly and everything was fine. But now for some reason when I try to stream it gets real laggy and my computer eventually crashes. I've looked around and found out that for some reason when I start streaming it takes up all of my RAM. I have 8gigs of RAM and when I run my game (LoL), skype, and pandora on google chrome it takes up about 2.4gigs of RAM. But when I open up OBS and start streaming the RAM being used slowly increases by .1gig every second until my computer crashes, or until I stop streaming. This hasnt happened before and I'm not sure whats wrong. The only difference between when i first started and now is that I listen to Pandora on Google Chrome instead of Firefox for the Adblock. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it though. Please help!

 

[Lain]

If possible, we'd need to see a log file of it to see what you're doing. There currently aren't any known major memory leaks with OBS that would cause such a thing to occur. Is your general memory just increasing? Or is the memory that OBS uses increasing? A somewhat big distinction. Anyway, I'd like to see a log to check out your OBS setup as well: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/problem-make-sure-to-post-a-log-and-or-crash-dump-howto.97/