[Compilation] Discussions on Opera using a high amount of RAM and having OOM messages on YouTube

[Jakobe12]

Jakobe12 @leocg last edited by

@leocg Weird, I read that around 200 MBs was the norm, oh well, anyway how do I fix a memory leak in opera?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Jakobe12 last edited by

@jakobe12 200MB per tab on a regular tab. A tab with media (video mainly) can take more than 500MB on a not so high resolution.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Jakobe12 last edited by

@jakobe12 Opera will need to fix it most probably. What you can do is to try to avoid it, if you know what triggers the memory leak.

[NekoHaru]

NekoHaru last edited by

i found a way to fix this

just disable opera gx built in ad blocker by doing it it takes 6gb less memory and no longer has any problem

[MateusDrte13]

MateusDrte13 @leocg last edited by

@leocg sorry! my english is not so good, so i thought i had published it right.

[MateusDrte13]

MateusDrte13 @leocg last edited by

@leocg yes, it only happens on youtube, it's becoming more and more common. I've been using opera for almost 2 years, this is the first time it's happened

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @MateusDrte13 last edited by

@mateusdrte13 Any difference if you disable all extensions?

[MateusDrte13]

MateusDrte13 @leocg last edited by

@leocg no, just for a better way to control my sound and also to read text from photos (https://webextension.org/listing/ocr.html) and (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/volume-master-controlador/jghecgabfgfdldnmbfkhmffcabddioke)

[Jakobe12]

Jakobe12 @NekoHaru last edited by

@nekoharu no offense bro but I already said I did that in the original post.

[Jakobe12]

Jakobe12 @leocg last edited by

@leocg Ok, so 200 is the standard for just a regular tab, I tested this and a tab with nothing on it is around 500 MBs, I know it's not a huge deal because I have a lot of memory, but I still want to know why its more than double the normal amount.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Jakobe12 last edited by

@jakobe12 There isn't a standard number, the amount of memory used may depends on a lot of factors.

[southc]

southc last edited by

Opera GX is using high memory ram in the recent updates (it was fine last month) well looks like we can't use a same tab to watch videos, if you open a video you need to close the tab and open the new video on new tab to reset the memory. hope you fix this memory leak. i have 16gb ram and sometimes i have out of memory message. below a print of gx control

[MateusDrte13]

MateusDrte13 @leocg last edited by

@leocg is there anything i can do? i've restarted my computer and reinstalled opera, but it hasn't worked. youtube is getting slower every day and is consuming more and more memory

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @MateusDrte13 last edited by

@mateusdrte13 Some people are saying that disabling adblocker may help.

[MateusDrte13]

MateusDrte13 @leocg last edited by

@leocg so I'm saying the opposite, nothing has changed

[MateusDrte13]

MateusDrte13 @leocg last edited by

@leocg this is getting more and more out of hand.....

[kiciulek]

kiciulek @MateusDrte13 last edited by

@MateusDrte13 Did you resolved this issue? I have the same problem. Opera keep consuimng RAM when I open Youtube page. ~5MB/s Just open main page. I am not even playing any video.

It makes operating system really laggy.

[MateusDrte13]

MateusDrte13 @kiciulek last edited by

@kiciulek Unfortunately not.... My Opera runs at 2000mb or 1000mb per day, but for me it's no longer a problem as I've upgraded the RAM in my computer, taking up only 40/30% of all the memory. It's still a pain, but I've got used to it.

[kiciulek]

kiciulek @MateusDrte13 last edited by

@MateusDrte13 Thank your for the reply. I've just migrated to Firefox. That bug makes Opera unusable with Youtube in my case. If I open Youtube on the Opera, it makes a new Opera system process. Even if I close it, the process reopen when I run Youtube on the other Chromum based browser.