Zoom Memory leak

[tpfau]

It seems like the latest zoom version for ubuntu (6.3.10) still suffers from a substantial memory leak.
When I start a meeting, every time I start/stop my camera, the memory usage goes up by about 2-5MB.
Every cycle of  "start screen share -> stop screen share " increases memory demand between 50 and 200 MB.
Just sitting in a meeting with 2 colleagues for 30 minutes had zoom go from ~1GB of memory in the beginning to a total of 5GB...
Ending the meeting (zoo process still running) does not free any of this memory.
The only "sensible" way to use zoom on a Linux system seems to be to use the browser, where at least the leak isn't that bad, but there are leaks as well (especially when screen sharing).

I know that zoom can work with reasonable memory amounts on windows. Why is it so hard to make this also work on linux systems...

Does anyone have good suggestions what could be done here?

[bstrelko]

This will absolutely need to get raised with Zoom Support, if you're able to raise a ticket.

Very difficult to get Zoom dev teams to fix bugs for Win/Mac these (it's an AI notetaking company now, have you heard?), I'm sure getting Linux issues ACKed and patched is even worse. Still need to get this into the support pipeline.

[stuomis]

I've encountered the same behavior. I can also replicate the memory increases by either:

1. resizing the zoom window size will increase memory consumption
2. while sharing a screen, changing how other participants' videos are shown (changing from one participant to gallery view) will increase memory consumption

This memory is never freed. Usage is increased until zoom crashes or my system crashes.

For me it looks like some buffer allocated for the video feeds is not freed up when a new one is opened.

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS and Zoom version 6.3.11.7212.