Comments on Profile Post by scblock

not happening with my Roon on a M2 mac mini

It's happening frequently on my Windows 10 machine unfortunately. My M2 MacBook Pro isn't really a suitable server host.

Dumped it a while ago. Have concerns about some privacy/security issues as well. And it's not just ARC, they do some really dumb shit.

I also run the core on a Mac and it's great. I wonder if their Windows version sucks at being the core. :(

Huh. I just run it off my work laptop, a Macbook Air, and haven't had any problems, other than it freezing every once in a while. One of these days, I'll do a dedicated core and mess with upsampling.

Weird, I run it on Windows 10 and it seems fine for me. I do tend to turn off my computer at night most nights, though.

I run my core on a 6-year old intel NUC that I bought off ebay for $50. I added 16 gb of cheap RAM and a cheap SSD, installed ROCK and was up and running in an hour. Plugged in a USB stick with big memory for my local files. It's very stable and can manage convolution filters but I don't do upsampling etc. Might be a good solution for you.

Roon forums are full of similar reports for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, most threads go nowhere and then are automatically closed after 45 days.

I run my core on an old Ryzen (?r5 or r7?) based machine with windows 10... sits headless in the basement and runs 24/7. I haven't remoted into the machine or restarted it in months. It just runs and runs...

Roon is a hot mess and I agree with your comments @Riotvan and take steps to block some stuff, but would love to hear more about your concerns.

Memory use over the last about 24 hours according to the logs: https://foodsled.com/sbaf/misc/roon_mem.png

totally submit that to Roon support and scream memory_leak()

@Vansen it runs with root/admin privileges and all communication is sent in plain text. They can access logs on your system without your consent and they track a fuckton of stuff in those logs. Poorly optimized when it comes to memory management and cpu usage. If it's not doing anything it should not keep one of the cores fully loaded.

They want you to open up a bunch of ports.

Yeah, mitigating controls can only do so much on the network side and that’s where I have most of my concerns. I’ve never had any performance issues on my Roon Core, which is a dedicated computer only for it (six core 8th Gen Intel i5). Never goes above 15% CPU overall and usually less than 5%, never loads a single core, and only uses a few hundred MB of RAM on a headless Ubuntu install.

Roon clients only go on my iOS devices, not letting it on other PCs. I still want to ditch Roon though for all the reasons you mentioned, but it’s been 100% reliable for me while sounding good so far.

I ran roon on my Fedora desktop 12c/24t/32gb and one update it was fine and then the other one it was fucked again. Don't get wrong i didn't have performance or usability problems except for the one time where i could only play one album before the memory leak got too bad. Roon remote on my ipad was funky sometimes as well.

Now i just use tidal connect most of the times, my pc is connected to my stereo as well with aes so i can just play files from there. Volumio was a bit shit in the past for network playback so i haven't looked back since, it's fine for roon endpoints and tidal though since i don't have to touch that horrible interface.