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03-08-2018, 12:54 PM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 25
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REAPER ate all my ram!! (FIXED)
Hello fellow reaperists,
I've been using reaper for several years now and am extremely happy with it.
Anyway, lately I think I encountered a memory leak bug.
Symptoms: Everytime I do an edit to audio item, Reaper's memory usage rises dramatically (around 10mb on a larger project, 1-2mb on smaller projects).
I edit audiobooks so I have one track with of lots of hours of heavily edited audio. Nothing else, only 1 instance of ReaComp. And the more complex and longer this audio track is, the more memory Reaper consumes after every edit. Actually, just selecting, deselecting audio uses same amount of memory. Other actions like creating new empty track, editing on this empty track, adding/editing markers, etc. does NOT cause the memory to climb (in a measurable way at least). So this must be connected to the fact that one audio track is VERY complex.
To free up memory I don't need to restart Reaper, just reloading the project is enough. And memory usage is normal again, before I start editing.
This started happening in 5.70 (5.62 works without problems). I also tried portable install without any extensions and default config. Didn't help. Running Windows 7 64 bit with 8GB of RAM. Reaper is 64 bit also.
Anyone experiencing this?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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03-08-2018, 01:03 PM
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#2
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Newcastle UK
Posts: 474
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maybe turn off or imit undo history
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03-11-2018, 03:15 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 25
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 4x4uk
maybe turn off or imit undo history
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Thanks! I tried turning off undo memory (setting to 0) and it fixed it. Memory use doesn't increase anymore. But it's not optimal since undo is too convenient
Anyway, seems like Reaper doesn't limit the undo memory usage as set in preferences? Doesn't matter if I set it to 128 mb or 8 mb it still increases seemingly without limit. Maybe the undo history memory limit is broken?
I also just tried 5.77 and it's still the same.
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04-05-2018, 11:12 PM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 25
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Just wanted to bump the thread and also post some video evidence.
My first time embeding a gif, so hopefully it works:
As you can see, selecting, spliting etc. raises ram usage by 10+ mb every time. So I just run out of ram very soon. It is easy to dublicate with just copying lots of short clips to fill a couple of hours of timeline. Once the track becomes complicated enough, ram usage starts rising with every action on that track.
I also tried this on the newest build 5.79 pre8 and also on Mac OS. Same thing.
Incase embed didnt work:
https://media.giphy.com/media/fnDUrE...GkiL/giphy.gif
Last edited by weedboy; 04-06-2018 at 03:36 AM.
Reason: fixed embeding
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04-06-2018, 12:49 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 2,167
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Maybe it is one of your Effects.
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04-06-2018, 03:18 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Charleston, SC
Posts: 12,793
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Quote:
Originally Posted by weedboy
Just wanted to bump the thread and also post some video evidence.
My first time embeding a gif, so hopefully it works:
<img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/fnDUrE5TxJX76fGkiL/giphy.gif" height="480 " width="371">
As you can see, selecting, spliting etc. raises ram usage by 10+ mb every time. So I just run out of ram very soon. It is easy to dublicate with just copying lots of short clips to fill a couple of hours of timeline. Once the track becomes complicated enough, ram usage starts rising with every action on that track.
I also tried this on the newest build 5.79 pre8 and also on Mac OS. Same thing.
Incase embed didnt work:
https://media.giphy.com/media/fnDUrE...GkiL/giphy.gif
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To imbued use "[img]url[/img]" without quotes
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04-06-2018, 03:43 AM
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#7
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 25
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@Coachz -- Thanks! Fixed it.
@RJHollins -- i tried without any effects (no plugins, default reaper installation, no extensions), still the same.
Why i think it's a bug -- because 5.62 and earlier this never happened. And the memory use for reaper rises until it starts paging like hell and pc becomes unusable. (that's how i found out about it). I will be staying with reaper 5.62 for now, but it's not great in the long run, i already love some of the improvements in later versions.
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