License Server Seems to Have a Memory Leak

[jreynolds]

While checking on the license server today I noticed that the VRLserver service was using about 140 MB and peaked around 180 MB which was really odd because there was nothing on the farm and I was the only person I could find who had used it all day. After restarting the service it returned to under 5 MB.

Do you have any suggestions to what might help us not have to worry so ?

Best regards,
--Jon

[vlado]

Are you running the 64-bit version of the license server? If not, you can try it - if nothing else, at least Windows will give it more memory if necessary. I am looking at what might be causing this; it may not be memory consumption as such, but a memory fragmentation issue.

Best regards,
Vlado

[jreynolds]

No all of our license servers are 32-bit. Thanks for taking a look into what the problem might be. Let me know if you haven't been able to reliably reproduce this and I can see if our IT dept can do some sort tracking.

Thanks,
--Jon

[sv]

just thought i'd add that i'd seen this for the first time recently - after constantly running for something like 200+ days with no errors at all we started seeing buckets slightly mis aligned, then the water mark appear - we reset the license server and noticed that it was on about 250mg of ram.

All fine now though after restarting.....

[Morbid Angel]

well I just started using latest vray and I noticed same thing happening. Though it does not happen all the time, often I will start a job and it will be at 2.85 gb (x64) by the time it does frame 20 its already at 3.0gb and through the night it will be over that.

[vlado]

Are you sure this is because of the license server specifically?

Best regards,
Vlado

[Morbid Angel]

Are you sure this is because of the license server specifically?

Best regards,
Vlado

no not absolutly sure. Its a very complex scene, an object is getting closer to camera, this could also be why. More tests needed