OverSight using huge amount of memory

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OverSight using huge amount of memory

Closed this issue 2 years ago · 15 comments

Hello, this is my first post to GitHub

OverSight version 1.2.0 has occasionally eaten up huge amounts of memory. This has happened several times.

I noticed the computer slowing down and unable to do normal tasks. Activity Monitor would show OverSight using several GB of memory:

Planning to uninstall OverSight for now and watch for any updates. Using a Mac OS 10.13.6

Mahalo!

Answer 1 · 2021-02-25T10:15:44.000Z

Having the same issue. I emailed the dev a few times but no response so far...

Answer 2 · 2021-02-26T13:15:36.000Z

Same issue for me, filled up 40GB of swap on my 16GB laptop. Seems to have started sometime around the release of Big Sur so it might be a bug with the new OS.

Answer 3 · 2021-04-21T09:38:42.000Z

It also uses a lot of CPU

Answer 4 · 2021-04-27T09:04:21.000Z

I've had intermittently the same issue.

Since updating on 11.3 it seems to have gotten worse

Answer 5 · 2021-04-27T19:54:19.000Z

Well i removed it. Same thing. Also biggest consumer of power. I almost didn't notice due amount of ram installed in machine. But it was acting up weird for some time.

Answer 6 · 2021-04-29T13:28:23.000Z

Same behaviour using over 64GO of SWAP and MEMORY and one CPU at 70% on MacOS 11.3

Answer 7 · 2021-04-30T11:21:55.000Z

Having the same issue. macOS 11.3 and OverSight v 1.2.0. As soon as I opened the application it began using up as memory as it could. Hit at 15 GB RAM usage in minutes (I only have 8 GB physical RAM.)

CPU is also high, up to 60%.

Answer 8 · 2021-05-03T21:03:49.000Z

just pushed a beta with fix (and lots of other improvements!)
https://github.com/objective-see/OverSight/releases/tag/v2.0.0_beta

...note that it only monitors camera for now (will add microphone back in shortly).

If you like to test/report any issues, I'd be stoked!

Answer 9 · 2021-05-03T21:14:15.000Z

@objective-see thanks for the update !
Only 25MB of RAM used for now, and 0% CPU. Quite an improvement 🎉
Let's see how it goes in the next few days :-)

Answer 10 · 2021-05-04T17:56:03.000Z

Also installed the beta, will come back if I notice anything interesting. (Otherwise I'll likely forget to say anything, no news is good news, you can speculatively execute my Thanks)

Answer 11 · 2021-05-05T09:20:06.000Z

So far very stable and normal/light consumption of memory and cpu. Nice job!

Answer 12 · 2021-05-06T11:56:06.000Z

I confirm :)

Answer 13 · 2021-05-07T01:00:52.000Z

Confirming this ram and cpu issue on release v1.2.0. Both betas are huge improvements performance wise (2.0.0, 2.0.0 Beta 2)

Answer 14 · 2021-05-10T13:30:05.000Z

Fixed for me in v2.0.0 Beta 2

Answer 15 · 2022-08-01T09:20:58.000Z

...fixed in v2.0.0