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…

@Neureka do you have HW transcoding enabled? And is it using the iHD driver? (Check the “Job Running” log line in the PMS log)

@chrisallen I do have Use hardware acceleration when available and Use hardware-accelerated video encoding both enabled, despite not actually having an Intel Quick Sync compatible CPU or a dedicated graphics card. Could these settings being enabled cause a problem? I currently use a Ryzen 7 2700X C…

@chrisallen Just want to add that I am also experiencing this recently. I am using the Linuxserver.io container and I am not using DVR, have always had DLNA disabled and do not use hardware transcoding. I’ve only started experiencing this recently (I think within the past month or so). I’m curren…

I don’t know how long it’s been a problem, but I start noticing OOM errors recently because one of my docker containers died. I forgot to copy the free line before my buffer cleared, but I had less than 1GB of free RAM prior to restarting plex and over 20GB free after: [root@prometheus ~]# cat /et…

A year later and I still have this problem with DLNA and hardware encoding disabled. Any chance of an official update on this is issue?

[image] lyghtkruz: If anyone knows how to get the Plex clients to work without an internet connection on the same LAN that would be great :smiley: This might help: [HowTo] Use Plex with No Internet

I appreciate the response, I had already done most of those things. I could have logged in if I used a computer to watch it, but the TV clients don’t seem to use a cached login if the app isn’t running when it’s offline. It’s a rare case when the internet isn’t working, but it’s still an inconveni…

Seeing the same issue- VM running Plex is freezing and OOM killer stops plex. Have been restarting Plex for months and figured it was issues with the hypervisor. Added the preferences.xml fix and will test.

i have same issue!!! 8GB RAM and plex eat half of that…1year after the first hit… Why this DLNA RAM eatink so big problem?

Still no news?? Come on guys, the first time I had a problem with Plex’s DLNA and memory leaking was 2014. And the official response is always “We are working on it” :disappointed_relieved:

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

Plex Media Server

solitaryreign May 6, 2020, 8:56am 145

This might help: [HowTo] Use Plex with No Internet

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