I run a cluster of Plex servers using Docker distributed over multiple bare-metal servers. Since users have been upgrading to 1.15 I’ve been seeing a very large spike in memory usage that just keeps spiking the longer the processes live. The average memory usage used to be around the 300MB RSS but t…

Same issue running native plex package on synology. DLNA service eats up memory and may be causing kernal panic (not confirmed - still testing with DLNA service disabled). With DLNA disabled, memory seems stable enough. I’m using 1.18.4.2171 on an older synology - DS1512+

I’m also experiencing this. Running native on Windows Server 2012 R2. I have 32GB RAM and it’s getting almost completely filled over the course of a couple of days. DLNA is disabled. Version 1.18.4.2171

I’ve installed 1.18.4.2171 as well now on my DS918+. Still getting Memory going through the roof after some time. But now it’s a least solved again by stopping and starting the Plex service. This is getting really annoying! (All checkboxes for DLNA are disabled)

I am also seeing a memory issue. no DLNA no DVR i usually have to restart plex about twice a week

I’m recently started experiencing this issue. I’m using the official plex docker contain on my unraid server. Noticed 16gb ram being used up by my docker. Restart solves issue temporarily. I rarely update this docker but this was a fresh server rebuild and appdata transfer. Has anyone from plex ack…

Having the same issue. Plex is chewing all my ram. 32 GB ram on Win10

We acknowledge this is an issue that affects a number of users. I personally can reproduce this when running PMS in Docker with a container memory limit set, and am working with our build and server teams to try and track down this leak.

Same issue since I updated my perfectly working 1.18.6.2368 to the public 1.18.7.2438, installed on a Synology with docker. My 8Gb Memory is getting filled very quick while playing a video, which stops when memory is near 80% full and restarting the container doesn’t flush the memory… Reverting to …

Hi, the culprit is, like many others here, the new iHD_drv_video.so driver. When deleted and relying on good old VAAPI driver, everything is fine, memory usage is stable. I saw there was a transcoder rework for Apollo lake cpus in 1.18.7 but it obviously doesn’t suit my setup. EDIT: @ChuckPa provid…

Memory leak since 1.15.x on 300+ Plex Server Instances

Plex Media Server

rickgillyon January 26, 2020, 1:56am 130

All the docker containers did the same thing for me, tried them all. I’ve seen no acknowledgement of the issue.

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Memory leak since 1.15.x on 300+ Plex Server Instances

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