OBS uses almost 300gb after a couple hours

jetpackblues

New Member
I'm using OBS to stream to Twitch. For the past few weeks, when I reach about 3 hours, the Force Quit Applications window will pop up and tell me that OBS is taking about ~300gb of space. The only plug-in I use is the websocket plugin. I have completely uninstalled OBS and erased Library data. Reinstalled both OBS and the websocket plugin, restored just my scenes, and the error continues.

I just opened OBS left it opened without streaming, I noticed that the application memory is just climbing at about 90gb per hour. Here is the log for this test. https://obsproject.com/logs/AXUqXQT7arJIKOZq

I'm not sure what to do exactly. I have tried refreshing the streamlabs alert browser source. I have disabled the chroma key on the camera. I have switched scenes to see if that works... but nothing. The application's memory keeps climbing.

Any ideas how I could fix this?
 

reflekshun

New Member
It's a memory leak, try to pinpoint exactly where that memory leak is coming from by using the process of elimination. Then send a bug report to OBS. That's the only way to fix it!

I'm working on this same exact problem too! I get from 2GB -> 100GB in about 45 minutes. I'm going to isolate each source and even each obs filter, and see which ones are causing it.
 

Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
Are you using Streamlabs OBS? or OBS Project? If you are are using Streamlabs OBS, that is a fork from the software from this site, and you should go to Streamlabs for support
 
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