Plex DLNA Server Memory Leak

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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Server Version#: 1.15.4.993
Player Version#: Firefox 68.0.1 but other clients are used as well. Smart TV’s, ROKU’s.

After a few days my Plex server, running on my QNAP NAS, uses up 1.8 G of memory. Normally it runs at no more than 250 M. The server has a max. of 3 G.

When this happens the clients show buffering. Under normal memory usage buffering does not occur.

The process that uses up the 1.8 G is the Plex DLNA Service.

For example, right now, there are 2 people watching different videos without problem. The server is only using about 175 M. The Plex DLNA Service is only using 46 M.

There appears to be a conditional memory leak problem within this service.

I have been dealing with this problem for a few years now and just restarting the server when the problem arises. But I have noticed that other people are reporting this problem. Hopefully, it will be resolved sometime soon as restarting the Plex server everytime this occurs is a bit of a nuisance.

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Would be nice the Plex team fixes this. It is lasting since several month (at least).
Looking at the size of the leak and the fact that it is 100% reproducible it shouldn’t be difficult to find the root cause.

Thanks upfront to the Plex team to look at this bug

Cheers

G.

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Per the DLNA memory leak and finding the root cause,

respectfully,

if it were easy to find, it would have been fixed by now, true?

This is a known and well established issue.

As this thread is a duplicate of many others, closing this thread in favor of those