Audacity Forum

I did not compile this version myself. Where did you get it from? Which version is it? I have tried 2.4.1 and 2.3.3. These are official packages from the Arch maintainers: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/audacity/ Here is how 2.4 is packaged: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/c...

I did not compile this version myself. It should not be recording to memory, since it uses a temp dir. But even if it did use memory only, 20mb * 5 minutes is only 100mb. Also notice that on the other machines it never uses more then 1gb of the system. Even if I record for hours, memory use does not...

When recording in Audacity, all my memory gets quickly eaten up. I have multiple machines but slightly different setups but only one of them is having the issue. Here is the one having the issue: antergos/arch, kernel 5.6.13, audacity 2.3.3 and 2.4.0, 7th gen i7 processor, 16gb ram, 8gb swap system ...