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Brief description of the issue: After updating today from the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to the Creators Update, Spotify seems to be leaking memory when I start Spotify, to the point that it causes my computer to run completely out of memory within a minute or two. I have narrowed it down to Spotify by means of starting one program at a time and observing memory usage as reported by Task Manager. This has never been an issue before updating to the Creators Update. I can get Spotify to start without a memory leak after a few attempts.
Steps to reproduce the issue:
- Update Windows 10 to Creators Update (version 1703, OS Build 15063.138)
- Start Spotify.
- As Spotify loads (which takes quite a while ever since Spotify updated a while back, but that's another topic), check Task Manager's Performance>Memory window to see that memory usage is rising quickly.
- To stop my computer from freezing before running out of memory, I must force close Spotify using Task Manager>Details>Spotify.exe>End Process Tree, at which point memory usage returns to normal values.
What steps you’ve tried already: Uninstalling Spotify, then restarting my computer, and finally reinstalling Spotify.
Your device and operating system:
Windows 10 Creators Update (version 1703, OS Build 15063.138)
Core i7-2600k @ 4.2 GHz, 16 GBs DDR3 memory, 500 GB OS HDD (Spotify installed here), 2 TB RAID 0 data drive (most music stored here), 400 GB network-attached storage drive (a bit more music stored here), Nvidia GTX 770 2 GB graphics card (unsure if relevant).
Type of Spotify account you have: Free
The app version of Spotify you’re using: 1.0.52.725.g943b26a8
Any screenshots, if they can help to explain your issue:Completely out of memory. This was taken as my computer was frozen. As you can see, 100% memory usage in only 12 minutes of computer uptime. Spotify used up about 11 GBs of memory in less than two of those minutes.
Here's a before and after opening Spotify memory usage curve. Graph width is 60 seconds.
Another attempt to open Spotify. Graph width is 60 seconds.
Weirdly, neither Resource Monitor or the Details tab in Task Manager reports any extreme memory usage (for any process, not just Spotify!)
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