new version - OUT OF MEMORY issue
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textomy last edited by
Update:
still using VPN. I don't use Avast. Just Windows Defender.
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violetphoenix last edited by
The problem has been happening since at least several months. In my case, I think VPN causes the memory leak. With only several tabs open, especially with Youtube videos, the memory usage of Opera goes up to 1.5 GB. This is unacceptable. VPN itself is quite reliable, but when it is on; it somehow causes this out of memory situation.
And a person mentioned other extensions are causing this, it doesn't seem to be true. With or without an adblocker, the problem still happens.
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textomy last edited by
Update again:
opera updated to 43.0.2442.1144 (PGO)OOM error happened again even with all the extensions are disabled. It took longer, but the error still happens.
I agree -- youtube causes OOM error sooner.
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zalex108 last edited byI do not usuarlly use VPN but it's so weird... I recommend to try with disabling any AV and with a clean Opera profile.
I suppose they test with at least Windows Defender, so should work unless it's a bug.
If you can try with another PC or in a VM the situation could be isolated and discard any assumptions.
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felixcoolman last edited by
I have the same problem. windows10, windows defender. It happens every day. After it happend, I restart windows, so opera works for some time. Alternatively I use edge that doesn't claim any memory problem.
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zalex108 last edited by
I'm testing it on a flash video and the memory use is reasonable.
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A Former User last edited by
Happens to when I go on the local TV news site
https://1drv.ms/i/s!ArebzalZDNjFjHeRdyoOD0b91Q7B
that's a screenshot of the Windows task manager with a total of 2.4GB of memory being use with only 2 tabs open Facebook and the TVNZ news page and only gets worse if I open more tabs until opera is so slow it becomes unusable
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lando242 last edited by
What does Opera's Task Manager say is using the most RAM when that is happening?
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A Former User last edited by
Using Unlocator and watching BBC iPlayer. 50 minutes and... crash, out of memory. Doesn't happen with Netflix.
Get the same crash with Vivaldi. Chrome problem? -
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sugihartolim last edited by
Same thing is happening to my opera installation since November 2016.
- Symptoms: From time to time, especially when opening sites with (html5) video content, opera will show 'out of memory' error, and have to be restarted.
- System specs: windows 10 x64, 32GB RAM, AMD Radeon 380x, Intel 6600K.
- Misc: Windows Defender and Comodo personal firewall running. Flash is NOT installed.
What has been tried:
- Incognito / Private mode : No effect.
- VPN enabled vs disabled : No effect, maybe slightly less frequent.
- Hardware Accelerated rendering enabled vs disabled: No effect.
- New Profile / Clean Install: No effect.
For comparison: Opera (recently opened) with 4 tabs, and a youtube tab playing 3 movie trailers, and it's already at 850MB RAM usage. Vs Firefox which has around 12 tabs open and a youtube tab that has been playing a lot of other contents for at least 5 hours is sitting at 550MB RAM usage. The weird thing is, closing the youtube tab does not decrease opera's memory usage at all.
Would appreciate workarounds/suggestions.
If anyone needs more information, please let me know.Thanks.
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zalex108 last edited by admin
@zalex108 please check below.
https://forums.opera.com/post/117042https://forums.opera.com/post/117158
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ayhayat last edited by
happens to me all the time on Windows 7 after watching 10 videos or so.
will there be any real response from the dev team, any real fix other than "cannot reproduce that" messages?
apparently it has been happening to a lot of people so why not stop acting like "woah we have no idea this is happening" and try to fix it or at least have the guts to acknowledge it. -
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sodarocket last edited by
Bug continues to exist. No VPN, no firewall, no anti-virus on my end, and this is how task manager looks like after about an hour of watching a stream. Eventually, after filling up all available memory tab will crash.
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jafrese last edited by
Exactly the same problem here on my desktop (Win64, i7, 16gb ram) since about December 2016. I switched to Vivaldi until it is fixed. On both of my notebooks (Win 10 and Win 8.1) Opera works fine.
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A Former User last edited by
Thanks to this forum discussion, I realized that, in my case, it was the VPN that was the main culprit. The VPN was introduced in Opera 40, on 9/20/16, but I didn't use it until either v41 or v42. I used it, just to see how well it would work, and I forgot and left it on all the time. I started getting regular crashes due to memory issues several weeks ago, crashes which became more and more frequent, until I finally got one last week that coincided with a Windows low memory message, which blamed it on Opera. I haven't seen such a message from Windows in ages, and certainly not on this laptop, which has 16gb of RAM. That meant that I had to take the issue seriously: it was more than an inconvenience. I did some looking and was shocked to see that pagefile.sys was >22 gb, leaving less than 2 gb free on my C: drive. Pagefile.sys is normally at 1 gb all the time. I have hiberfil.sys disabled, so I don't have to worry about that. Uninstalling and reinstalling Opera did not solve the problem. There had been no major software changes on my system. Although the VPN was the only thing I was doing differently, I considered that there might have been some other change in Opera to cause the problem, so I asked my friend Google about it. That eventually led me here. Stopping the VPN stopped the problem.
