[dkoh]

what is happening with the memory allocation and where does it "start" to max out?

Regular use, from what I've seen... playing movies, etc, it's at ~2.0 to 2.4 Gb.  Go into music and it drops to 1.4 and crashes or hangs.

can you take a look at smb://MACHINE01/E/#Artist Info/'Til Tuesday/fanart.jpg, what are the image properties

1920x1060, 286 kb.  Yes, other skins use it.

What happens if you delete every addon in your Kodi addons folder besides skin.aeon.nox.silvo

So, in the beginning, I had - on a clean formatted drive - customregis Windows app and AutoHotKey (reverted back to stock keyboard.xml but kept the GSB function), Kodi 18.1, Silvo repo and skin, rmector repo, Artwork Beef, Youtube, and Trakt.  The last few logs have been the same but no Artwork Beef.  It didn't make a difference so I put it back on.  Now I have the skins I've logged above and all their dependencies.

What would you like to see?  I'm thinking about putting Camtasia on or something (any suggestions?) to show you guys the actual behavior.  It doesn't act like a regular RAM failure: lagging, stuttering, bogging.  The other skins work as expected.  I haven't tweaked them a whole lot but they're showing all the art and playing what it should (I've been warming up to MQ).  FWIW, I use showcase (no infopanel) on music, although any other flow style crashes as well. I also use showcase with icons, infopanel, extended mediaflags, discs, and fanart for movies and have no problems, even while playing a movie in the back and scrolling through other menus.

That said, I do understand that "I don't know" is an answer.  If you want me to continue helping with this, I will, although you may have to wait for weekends for big operations as it gets used constantly throughout the week and I don't have a lot of time after work.  When I started this, I had the presumption that it would be an easy error to spot or simple fix.  I now see that my problem is unique.  I can totally accept an answer like "I have no idea, but I will keep this in mind and see if others come across this." or even "I can't spend 230 hours to satisfy one user."  I truly get it.

Thx for everyone's attention so far,
dkoh