High memory consumption

[MikeBP13]

Problem/Motivation

Every time I open the add-on, the memory consumption increases significantly (>3% on a 16GB installation) even without doing anything with it...

Expected behavior

Keep memory consumption low if add-on doesn't perform any actions - similar to the behavior experienced several months ago (at least 2-3 releases ago)

Actual behavior

See reason

Steps to reproduce

1. Restart the add-on -> memory consumption is low
2. Open the add-on -> huge jump in memory consumption without doing anything (no files are open, ...)

Proposed changes

No idea...

[davidrapan]

Yeah and at least as far I know it started happening w/ some of the recent updates... but I noticed that it is already mentioned in several other issues. 😉

[sp0ngeboobs]

also the same problem. It took 4GB of RAM. Rebooting HA does not work, you need to reboot the entire addon to clear the memory. Every day takes away a little bit of memory

[MikeBP13]

also the same problem. It took 4GB of RAM. Rebooting HA does not work, you need to reboot the entire addon to clear the memory. Every day takes away a little bit of memory

I can confirm: HA restart does not help. You need to restart the add-on or reboot the machine hosting HA to clear the memory. Even after restart, the consumed memory slowly increases each day even though the add-on is not used.

[LogicAnalysis]

I also had the same issue. As @sp0ngeboobs said, restarting HA doesn't solve the issue. Restarting the addon does provide a temporary remedy. In my case, it was using >10gb of RAM! I only noticed when Frigate failed to start due to signal 9, and I had to investigate. Turns out VS was hogging all the RAM

[sca075]

Had noticed the same, and I guess there was a similar issue in the past. I would say CPU and Memory rump up and I can confirm that restarting the addon is the only option as per I guess HA is restarting only itself. I just roll back the addon to the the earlier release as the last was publish in November there was still a backup available. If this somehow solve the problem will let you know.