RAM Filling (and sometimes continuing to grow) after Encoding is complete. Freezes AME
I do all my editing on my primary system, then save the project file to a folder on Dropbox. A remote computer running Media Encoder has that folder setup as a Watch folder to automatically pickup and export the sequences in a project. A number of computers will save projects to that folder and it is supposed to just truck through them, as headless a possible.
At some point we'll notice that projects have stopped rendering and when checking the machine Adobe Media encoder has frozen, and there's a system warning to force quit apps because the computer is out of memory. It's been a relatively consistent issue, but moreso lately.
After force quitting Media Encoder and re-opening it, it picks up with any files that hadn't finished, and goes on it merry little way until it runs out of memory again. The files that it got stuck on proceed through without issue, so it's not centered on the projects or footage themselves, it seems that Media encoder isn't releasing the the memory it uses when projects complete.
Remote Machine Running AME:
Mac Mini - M1, 2020
MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1
8GB RAM
35GB Available HD
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