Windows memory usage

[djon]

Logitech Media Server quickly uses over 300 MB of memory on my PC and makes it very sluggish. After a restart it "only" uses around 150 MB. Is it just built to be leaky or is there anything to do? I was trying to schedule a nightly restart of the service, but I can't find it in the Services list. What's it called?

[GreyBeard]

It calls itself squeezesvc in the task manager services tab, but Logitech Media Server in services.

[djon]

It calls itself squeezesvc in the task manager services tab, but Logitech Media Server in services.

I have neither. All I have is SQUEEZ~3.EXE in Taskmanager, but I need the service name. Doesn't it run as a Windows service??

[djon]

I have neither. All I have is SQUEEZ~3.EXE in Taskmanager, but I need the service name. Doesn't it run as a Windows service??

My bad, I hadn't changed it to run at system login...

[Mnyb]

The total memory used also depends on the amount of plugins running, and yes it is growing after initial start and some searching and browsing , but 150-300mb is not that much and i consider that normal by today's standard . Do you have any swap at all ?

A minimal install with very little plugin use is closer to 150mb ime add more plugins and it uses more.
Also in the performance settings you can enable a high memory mode for systems >1000mb memory to speed things up, you obviously don't want that if you use some old hardware with very little ram .
I uses that mode with a box at exactly 1000mb ram, but I'm on a very light server Linux OS so the OS itself don't grab much it basically never swaps .

Have in mind that LMS can use almost all aviable resources during scanning on slower hardware , so if that's the case wait until the scan is finished before use .

And yes there is circumstantial evidence that LMS is somewhat leaky ,but it usually take weeks and it's a lot more memory than this ?

I disabled the video and picture things and the dlna/upnp plugin as this is not a core feature for a squeezebox user and was conceived to aid the Logitech revue ( who is now discontinued ) and never worked quite right neither in scanning or use .
I've also disabled the slimp3 and sb1 support as I don't have those really old players, this may save some memory too .

What the CPU use ? It migth be another reason but memory that makes everything grind to a halt ?
Are you perhaps using a file format that needs server transcoding before it's sent to the player ? This uses CPU .

[bobkoure]

I shut the service down every night using psservice, do a robocopy daily mirror of the cache as it's on a ramdisk, then restart.
If you're concerned about a long-term memory leak you could just do a restart every night.
Download psservice.exe from microsoft
create a cmd file containing the line psservice restart squeezesvc
schedule the cmd to be run.

Actually, you could just schedule psservice to run with the parameters "restart squeezesv"

[JJZolx]

The server tends to grow, but in my experience it tends to plateau at some level of memory usage. Far more likely is that one or more of the plugins that you're running is misbehaving. You should disable any third party _and_ built in plugins that you don't actually use.

[djon]

I shut the service down every night using psservice, do a robocopy daily mirror of the cache as it's on a ramdisk, then restart.
If you're concerned about a long-term memory leak you could just do a restart every night.
Download psservice.exe from microsoft
create a cmd file containing the line psservice restart squeezesvc
schedule the cmd to be run.

Actually, you could just schedule psservice to run with the parameters "restart squeezesv"

Thanks for that. I struggled with a bat file containing net stop and net start logitech media server, because it didn't start up properly. Psservice works like a charm, so I've scheduled this to run once a week now.

The leak I can see is a slow rise from 150 MB to 500 MB within a few weeks, making my poor old server more and more slow, probably because it doesn't have too much RAM and needs to swap a lot more as LMS eats away it's ressources.