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Veeta
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Roku Express & Roku TV firmware 7.2 not freeing memory after Scene Graph exit

I've been working to pare down the feature set on a Scene Graph app enough to get acceptable performance on the Roku Express and 5000X TV platforms.  I've had a hard time tracking down unresponsive UIs, freezing and crashing until I noticed the upward memory trend.  I lose about 10MB of free memory each time I enter and exit the channel.  Doesn't happen on non-scenegraph channels.  Also doesn't happen on firmware 7.5.  

Both the problematic Express and TV devices are currently stuck at firmware 7.2 and exhibit this behavior.  I wonder if this is the issue behind the Netflix problem reported in the General Discussion forum https://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=97709 ?  The common symptom there being that Netflix is one of the few channels that runs a non-SDK1 experience on these low-spec devices.

I'm wondering if others are experiencing this or perhaps RokuCo can verify a known issue and fix in the works.
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Komag
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Re: Roku Express & Roku TV firmware 7.2 not freeing memory after Scene Graph exit

Well if it doesn't happen on 7.5 then they fixed it, right? All Roku's will get 7.5 at some point.
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Veeta
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Re: Roku Express & Roku TV firmware 7.2 not freeing memory after Scene Graph exit

While you're probably right, I was hoping for something a little more conclusive.  The combination I don't have is an Express or 5000X TV with 7.5 firmware to do an A/B verification.  It may be that there's a device-specific concern (e.g. they're both non-OpenGL) which is not resolved in 7.5.
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Komag
Roku Guru

Re: Roku Express & Roku TV firmware 7.2 not freeing memory after Scene Graph exit

Ah, I see the problem. That's why I test across 7 Rokus, and I still don't think I have enough!
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