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memory usage rises to 90% when recording

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#2,131 opened on May 31, 2021

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hey guys, i'm using motioneye in an Ubuntu VM on my proxmox host, with 4 ip cams. One of these cams is connected through rtsp, the other through rtmp since they are reolinks.

When motioneye starts recording one of the cameras, the memory usage goes up to 90% and stays at this point. Even when i manually stop recording, the memory usage doesn't go down and i need to reboot the machine. Without recording the memory usage is around 1.5 GB. A while back i had already running a motioneye machine that recorded 24/7 without any issues.

VM specs: 8 Cores, 6 GB ram

motionEye Version | 0.42.1 Motion Version | 4.2.2 OS Version | Ubuntu 20.10

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Investigate memory allocation patterns during recording, especially for RTSP and RTMP streams. Check for unclosed file handles or buffers in the recording pipeline.
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