Massive memory leak in After Effects 2022 causes system instability & lockups

Have been experiencing the same problem for sometime now... its really freaking frustrating... its gotten to a point now even when im importing a single video not even HD btw into the comp it isnt playing and asking to install more memory. This is real bad man.

Bumping in 2024 (Related Issue):

I found this thread, and it seems very similar to an issue I'm having with AE RAM settings .

My problem I'm having on the latest version is that AE won't cap how much memory it uses in the Memory & Performance settings (even when I set it). I don't want AE ever using more than 40GB of RAM of my total 64GB. I need 24GB for other things I'm also doing simultaneously.

But no matter how many times I set it, AE keeps resetting it to whatever it feels like. Already been in an Adobe chat all day, and best solutino was to reset preferences and delete the preferences folder (which didn't work).

Here is a video of my issue:

https://youtu.be/qb8UbZftbTg?si=OrgBreH8HmDbiB0d

Hello people I am here to announce that ae 2024 is using up 100GB of ram when idling and doing nothing I just opened the program clicked on the last project which has a single audio file init. I previewed the audio file once and sat at my desk while looking at task manager and in 3 minutes it shot upto 100gb of usage. For the smarty pants multi frame rendering is off and cache when idle is also off. I'm in a state of bliss right now and have broke my monitor in the process it now has a hole in it 

Just wanted to chime in and say that after months and months of suffering with this issue (regardless of safe mode, comp complexity, resolution, bit depth, etc) the latest update has finally resolved the problem for me (so far). I can finally use this (still buggy, horribly optimised) software without having to spam purge my ram every 5 minutes and face constant crashes. I can also render inside after effects again instead of resorting to media encoder - a relief because often media encoder would create flashing frames and other weird bugs with more complex comps. 

Can't believe it took this long to fix this issue, but at least for now (AE 24.0.3) it is resolved, so for any newcomers to this thread please try updating. None of the other fixes mentioned in this thread did anything for me.

Cheers 

Hoi!

Just thought I'd way in on my experience with this issue, and what I have found. 2 Days in a row with ADOBE support and screen sharing, them uninstalling and reinnstalling, emptying caches and clicking about menus and preferences as I do myself regulary has proven worthless. They now ask me to reinstall Win11 (which I suspect is the culprit in combination with some weird AE bug), and I will comply just in hopes that this issue will reach DEV team like they told me.  Repairing M Vis. c++ files en masse neither fixed anything. A 3 second 1080P video without any plugins will slowly fill my ram in AE, especially easy to reacrete crash/black screen and error "cannot allocate random small mem number". I just need to render it several times. BUT! I found a workaround that worked for me. Hold Shift+ go to general pref menu -> Secret menu tab. And I set this:

After that my rendering worked like a charm never going over 6GB of ram usage, mostly workload around 3GB.

So it seems AE is not purging memory/RAM like Premiere is. I have not read up on how these 2 uses RAM access, but something must be very off in the way AE/win11+AE handles RAM usage. Microsoft and Adobe seem to be the ones that must fix this. Purging memory manually and using secret menus should not be a customer workload.

Happy Trials!

Same issue withn '23 for me.
Filling 110GB worth of RAM within 10 mins on larger projetcs. Need to purge ram before every preview on some. 
Not using any third party plugins on the particularly bad project that brought me here - but by all means Warren please tell me I don't have enough RAM and it's third party plugins to blame.

Ok I have noticed that if I set the render engine to "software only" my ram usage doesn't spike up to MAX of my 256GB of ram and the render is overall more stable. Something in the pipeline with GPU rendereing is not playing well. 

Other thing I've noticed is that cached frames render 2x as fast with GPU turned off which also tells me something is pooly optimized. 

I haven't updated to the September 2023 Studio Drivers yet but my guess is they wont fix this. 

Same issue happens to me, it goes up to 99% of my RAM usage, doing nothing or previewing simple scenes... Any fix?