Reduce memory eating?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by leocg

Devs, can you reduce opened processes?
when i start opera it opens in 13 processes with or without extensions
it also spams with 400Mbs of I/O rate
so could you please reduce it?
early i could play games with opened browser, but now i can use only one browser (my laptop is 4GB )
here's proof of opened apps: https://i.imgur.com/5uZV95r.png

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@snowfallsprite This is how Chromium works, different processes for different tasks, so you may need to ask Google.

You can check Opera's task manager to see what is taking up memory. Although your image shows that very few memory is being used.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg 13 processes at 660MB in a clean browser is a little over the top mine only does 8 an ~350MB

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@athlonite Only 50MB per process on average, that's nothing.

[incomingbrowserchange]

incomingbrowserchange last edited by

What do you think about this value, is 800MB for GPU process still reasonable memory utilization?!
( image url)

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @incomingbrowserchange last edited by

@incomingbrowserchange It may depends on what you are doing in the browser, what pages are opened and so on.

Its causing issues?

[incomingbrowserchange]

incomingbrowserchange last edited by

Well it depends on whether you consider slowing your system down to a crawl due to memory overload "an issue".

And I know, I could buy a new computer and all my problems with insufficient RAM would be solved. But I guess I'll rather try various other browsers to find out if there's still a serviceable alternative for people with older PCs.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @incomingbrowserchange last edited by

@incomingbrowserchange Yep, it would be an issue.

How other Chromium based browsers behave in the same scenario?

[incomingbrowserchange]

incomingbrowserchange last edited by

Well, as a long-time professional procrastinator I haven't really tried that much, just the usual suspects like Gaggle's chromed spyware and Firefox and admittedly Opera 58 is still my favourite (not using 60 mainly because of those user-unfriendly botched download/history tabs; it's not the most important thing for me, but a nuisance big enough to stay away from it).
Anyway, switching browsers with all that exporting/importing which can go wrong/sideways, lack of some extensions, the process of adjusting settings according to my preferences etc. isn't very convenient process. So I'll just keep using workarounds like killing the "GPU process" every once in a while - it restarts at about 200-250MB so I have around 500-600 MBs free for an hour or two as it slowly creeps back to 7-900. And I'll limit my browsing, disable a few extensions etc.
I've been thinking of buying a new PC as this desktop sometimes begins to feel like a relic. Too bad when I built it I decided to go with the 41G sticks of RAM instead of 22.
Have a productive day.

[incomingbrowserchange]

incomingbrowserchange last edited by incomingbrowserchange

Sucks I can't edit (or delete as I've just noticed) my previous post after an hour or so. Oh well, just wanted to say it's a bit strange the asterisks I used as a multiplication sign in 4x1 and 2x2 disappeared. A quirk of this forum I guess.

[newworldman]

newworldman @incomingbrowserchange last edited by

@incomingbrowserchange pretty much all modern browsers use large amounts of RAM. They're designed to grab it if it's available but otherwise not (if they're behaving properly).

I'm regularly at way higher usage than you report but I have 16Gb RAM so it's never an issue.