
# Unclosed Streams

Sometimes streams are not closed properly, which can lead to unexpected behavior. The following are some common issues that can occur when streams are not closed properly.

## Issue

The streamable UI has been slow to update.

## Solution

This happens when you create a streamable UI using [`createStreamableUI`](/docs/reference/ai-sdk-rsc/create-streamable-ui) and fail to close the stream.
In order to fix this, you must ensure you close the stream by calling the [`.done()`](/docs/reference/ai-sdk-rsc/create-streamable-ui#done) method.
This will ensure the stream is closed.

```tsx file='app/actions.tsx'
import { createStreamableUI } from 'ai/rsc';

const submitMessage = async () => {
  'use server';

  const stream = createStreamableUI('1');

  stream.update('2');
  stream.append('3');
  stream.done('4'); // [!code ++]

  return stream.value;
};
```


## Navigation

- [Azure OpenAI Slow to Stream](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/azure-stream-slow)
- [Client-Side Function Calls Not Invoked](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/client-side-function-calls-not-invoked)
- [Server Actions in Client Components](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/server-actions-in-client-components)
- [useChat/useCompletion stream output contains 0:... instead of text](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/strange-stream-output)
- [Streamable UI Errors](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/streamable-ui-errors)
- [Tool Invocation Missing Result Error](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/tool-invocation-missing-result)
- [Streaming Not Working When Deployed](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/streaming-not-working-when-deployed)
- [Streaming Not Working When Proxied](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/streaming-not-working-when-proxied)
- [Getting Timeouts When Deploying on Vercel](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/timeout-on-vercel)
- [Unclosed Streams](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/unclosed-streams)
- [useChat Failed to Parse Stream](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/use-chat-failed-to-parse-stream)
- [Server Action Plain Objects Error](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/client-stream-error)
- [useChat No Response with maxSteps](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/use-chat-tools-no-response)
- [useChat "An error occurred"](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/use-chat-an-error-occurred)
- [streamText fails silently](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/stream-text-not-working)
- [NaN token counts when using streamText with OpenAI models](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/nan-token-counts-openai-streaming)
- [Model is not assignable to type "LanguageModelV1"](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/model-is-not-assignable-to-type)
- [TypeScript error "Cannot find namespace 'JSX'"](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/typescript-cannot-find-namespace-jsx)
- [React error "Maximum update depth exceeded"](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/react-maximum-update-depth-exceeded)
- [Jest: cannot find module 'ai/rsc'](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/jest-cannot-find-module-ai-rsc)
- [Schema must be JSON Schema of type object error](/v4/docs/troubleshooting/zod-v4-json-schema-type-error)


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