<![CDATA[Reduce memory eating?]]>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

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/32862/reduce-memory-eatingRSS for NodeSat, 11 Jul 2026 08:49:16 GMTFri, 07 Jun 2019 12:30:42 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Reduce memory eating? on Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:12:28 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/173938https://forums.opera.com/post/173938Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:12:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Reduce memory eating? on Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:53:45 GMT]]>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. 🤗

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/173923https://forums.opera.com/post/173923Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:53:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Reduce memory eating? on Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:56:12 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/173917https://forums.opera.com/post/173917Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:56:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Reduce memory eating? on Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:53:35 GMT]]>@incomingbrowserchange Yep, it would be an issue.

How other Chromium based browsers behave in the same scenario?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/173625https://forums.opera.com/post/173625Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:53:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Reduce memory eating? on Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:20:43 GMT]]>Well it depends on whether you consider slowing your system down to a crawl due to memory overload "an issue".
opera Gpu process.JPG
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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/173623https://forums.opera.com/post/173623Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:20:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Reduce memory eating? on Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:33:55 GMT]]>@incomingbrowserchange It may depends on what you are doing in the browser, what pages are opened and so on.

Its causing issues?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/173513https://forums.opera.com/post/173513Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:33:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Reduce memory eating? on Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:00:46 GMT]]>What do you think about this value, is 800MB for GPU process still reasonable memory utilization?!
(opera Gpu process.JPG image url)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/173497https://forums.opera.com/post/173497Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:00:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Reduce memory eating? on Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:11:08 GMT]]>@athlonite Only 50MB per process on average, that's nothing.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/173186https://forums.opera.com/post/173186Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:11:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Reduce memory eating? on Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:53:49 GMT]]>@leocg 13 processes at 660MB in a clean browser is a little over the top mine only does 8 an ~350MB

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/173184https://forums.opera.com/post/173184Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:53:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Reduce memory eating? on Fri, 07 Jun 2019 14:22:48 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/172787https://forums.opera.com/post/172787Fri, 07 Jun 2019 14:22:48 GMT