OBS using 13+ GB RAM

[blundingen]

Hello all

I've been trying to troubleshoot an issue with OBS using 13+ GB of Memory on my computer, without even running a stream or recording.
Tried clearing Caches, cleaning up scenes and sources, but am struggling to see where it's using all the memory.

I'm struggling to come up with what the possible solutions could be.
It's been crashing, and loosing connections with my bots, my audio has been going bad and spotify freezing/looping, my camera gets a line on source that sometimes move down over the screen, and my stream deck has been unable to connect to OBS.

I've recently updated my RAM to see if that helped avoid a freeze, because I thought that was what was causing the issue, but it didn't change anything.
I'm not sure if it's the different graphics/pictures stored in OBS scenes, that's adding up to all of this?

I hope somebody with more understanding of tech-stuff is able to help me.

Thank you so much for taking your time!

 

[Harold]

Does the problem persist if you remove the streamlements plugin from your install?

 

[blundingen]

Does the problem persist if you remove the streamlements plugin from your install?

I just uninstalled it, and unfortunately, it still runs at an outrageous high amount of memory.


I will run a test stream again, and see if it crashes with all the other issues, but the log files quickly become too large to upload here.

 

[koala]

In the task manager, click the > in front of the OBS icon to expand the child processes. Are there multiple processes listed? If one of these is obs-browser-page.exe, then it's one of your browser sources or browser docks, not OBS itself.

 

[Suslik V]

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23:11:55.668: Number of memory leaks: 82

What is this?

 

[blundingen]

In the task manager, click the > in front of the OBS icon to expand the child processes. Are there multiple processes listed? If one of these is obs-browser-page.exe, then it's one of your browser sources or browser docks, not OBS itself.

The Task manager just has the process of "OBS 30.2.3 - Profile: Blunding - Scenes: Untitled" listed when I expand it. I expected it to be a browser source or similar taking up a bunch of my use, but I have tried to minimize the use of plugins more and more, to easier be able to troubleshoot if stuff like this happened. At the same time I cleared the Cache.
Not sure if this cached memory could be one of the reasons too? Would media and Image sources take up this much memory?

 

[blundingen]

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23:11:55.668: Number of memory leaks: 82

What is this?

I actually do not know.

 

[blundingen]

UPDATE:
I have ticked unloading of my sources, when not showing, which helped bring me down towards "only" 4 GB of ram usage atm, so definitely found a big sinner there. I don't know if this will affect timings of everything