# Very high Wowza heap and memory usage

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/very-high-wowza-heap-and-memory-usage/36559>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [February 2, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/very-high-wowza-heap-and-memory-usage/36559 "2015-02-02T17:35:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Ars\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Ars\_M](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ars_M)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/very-high-wowza-heap-and-memory-usage/36559/1 "2015-02-02T17:35:32Z")

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We have trouble with very high Wowza heap and memory usage

Server configuration 24GB RAM, Intel Xeon CPU E5-2640 16 cores

Now on server only 10 streams. nDVR recording is enabled

Now we have about 22GB Ram and 7.2Gb java heap, but wowza heap and memory still grows.

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2015, 8:41am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/very-high-wowza-heap-and-memory-usage/36559/2 "2015-02-03T08:41:29Z")

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Hello there.

Please read through the posts in this thread for answers related to your question. At the end of which, Jason\_H gives instructions on what information the support team needs when opening a ticket.

[Wowza Heap and Memory is getting full](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/44340)

Kind regards,

Salvadore