Memory leak in browser and Deezer desktop app

Uf, native app sounds me like the final of “not “ oficially supported electron tweaked app for Linux!

So please, be warned, most Linux users ( 670 votes more or less are much users) are going to leave deezer unless they have an app to play music.

PD: the native app is efficient, so a good idea I think. But have in mind compability things like Linux one. I think there are much apis that are multiplatform so .. please

can you see if in the app it occurs too or not please? at least for me in linux with aur package is happening so I think it will be in windows to.

@Rudi can we change title ( too “ memory leaks on browser and app”)once a time it’s confirmed that windows app ( in windows) is having the same problem with memory leaks? For me in Linux is happening and this is probably a windows too problem so..

I tried this morning with latest Chrome stable (debian package) : 84.0.4147.89 (Build officiel) (64 bits).

Chrome displays the same behavior, with the ever-growing memory usage being tied to the deezer tab (and not to the chrome parent process which remains stable). Notes :

• the memory gets freed when closing the tab.
• the memory loss is much quicker with “hifi” setting than with MP3 (128 or 320) setting.
• pausing playback has no effect (does not free the memory) neither has finishing or emptying the playlist with playback “naturally” coming to a halt.

Thoughts : the memory leak may be tied to the improper implementation of some kind of client-side library or middleware (used for caching, unpacking or sound processing ?) that needs explicit (maybe undocumented ?) memory management not being called by deezer.

@Alblinux I took care of it.

Thanks for the precise feedback @j94, we’ll forward it to the dev team. I’m sorry we didn’t have the time to take a closer look to this issue so far.

I also have this problem both on Linux and Windows. Firefox (the deezer tab) sometimes takes all of the available memory in my system, causing the entire system to hang and crash.

After closing the tab the memory is released.

Hey @Bram D

We don't fully support Linux yet - the development of an app is on the plans, but we still need more time. Could I kindly ask you to try Deezer on Chromium to see if the leak is similar? Thank you for keeping us updated 

On Windows do you also use Firefox?

I would like to share related discussions:

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591722
• https://www.reddit.com/r/deezer/comments/g9aur8/mac_desktop_app_high_memory_use_common/
• https://github.com/ColinDuquesnoy/MellowPlayer/issues/169

This problem seems to be annoying everyone that plays Deezer on PC for many hours

Thanks for highlighting the other channels @Mateus Amarante you've got a point 

I'll be sharing the links with the teams to make them aware.

AFICT, this is specific to Deezer. I can reproduce this on Linux Firefox 81.0, Vivaldi 3.3.2022.47 and Chrome 85.0.4183.121, also under Windows using an older version of Firefox. With all theses browsers there is flat memory consumption with e.g. TuneIn.