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Memory leak now occurring again on 970s!
I think I am experiencing a memory leak on both 970 satellites again. The 971 router is fine. All operations are otherwise fine.
I'll bet that one or both will crash and restart sometime soon. ...
UPDATE: From April 16 to this morning, one 970 has gone from 755MB to 845MB, the other from 772MB to 839MB.
In total - I started watching this on March 27th, where sometime prior both 970s had creeped up from 600MB -610MB, where they always ran, to 630MB. So memory growth in 30 days has been:
970 1st floor: 630MB -> 845MB, 7.2 MB a day
970 3rd floor: 630MB -> 830MB, 6.7 MB a day.
Does it go to the range of the router (1005 MB -> 1050 MB), and stop? Does it go to the memory max and crash?
Router and both 970s have been up 66 days now!
This is my last update - I am thinking this must not be anything of importance as I have gotten zero responses on it. If there is any guidance or information that can be shared, I am all ears! Otherwise, I'll just assume there are bigger fish to fry and we'll leave this problem to the future.
@Orbi_Ryan @Orbi_Tom @Orbi_Weber @Straq @paolam @KevinLiT @FURRYe38
Memory leaks are bad because they can cause the system to run out of memory and crash/restart. That said, slow memory leaks are less critical if the time to crash period is lengthy. We want to calculate your rate of memory leak vs. the peak memory available (i.e., until it runs out of memory and crashes). My Orbi 870 says it is using 634MB of 1828MB. Does your 970 also have approx 1828MB? If yes then your slow memory leak is not going to bother you for many more months.
Your system has also been up, and stable, for 66 days. That's pretty good! I would expect that many Orbi owners have much less uptime because new firmware upgrades, system settings changes, etc. occur more frequently.
It's a bug that your memory is leaking. However it seems to be a fairly slow leak and will not impact most customers, or not for a long time. So it's criticality is probably low amongst other Orbi bugs and feature enhancements.