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Steam crashes with out of memory exception

steamclosed Steam clientDistro Family: NixOS
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7836 · opened 2021-06-06 by ghost · updated 2021-06-06 · 3 comments · github
?ghost 2021-06-06 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1621394999
  • Distribution: 64bit NixOS 21.11 Preview
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No, switching to beta has an issue with libpipewire.so
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

When starting steam after a few minutes to an hour it crashes, with or without user interaction.
Started around the time that I was downloading Need for speed: Hot Pursuit remastered, but has continued after uninstalling.

Making a logfile shows that it tries to allocate 200MB of something, said it's out of memory and crashes. there is more than 14GB of memory available on the system

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Launch steam
  2. Wait 10-60 minutes
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-06-06 github

Hello @TAK-YON, can you give #7280 a read and check if your symptoms match that issue report?

?ghost 2021-06-06 github

Hello @TAK-YON, can you give #7280 a read and check if your symptoms match that issue report?

Yes this seems to be the same error

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-06-06 github

Thanks for checking. Feel free to add your experience to the older issue report.

Closing as a duplicate.

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