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    The High CPU/RAM/ETC Usage Topic

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    • dugglebb
      dugglebb last edited by leocg

      General agreement with the thread concept. The more recent upgrades of Opera Hog CPU on a regular basis, internet banking is becoming a trial as often the CPU hogging means the transaction times out before the CPU drops to less than 100%
      Doesn't happen in Chrome so unless a reliable working fix comes up soon I'm going to Junk opera as unusable and revert to Chrome.
      I might even give MS Edge a go, it can't be any worse than present Opera versions

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      • dugglebb
        dugglebb @dugglebb last edited by

        @dugglebb
        feel the banning for capitalisation is absurd, but seems in keeping with current product's performance, shame there's not the same attention and effort applied to product shortcomings as to grammar critique
        have tried other browsers and decided that vivaldi is vastly superior to opera, and i hope i won't need to complain in capitals or lower case. so opera will be going in the bin

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        • darkpassenger
          darkpassenger last edited by

          Re: The High CPU/RAM/ETC Usage Topic

          On:
          Version:82.0.4227.33
          Update stream: Stable
          System: Windows 7 64-Bit

          The 'Browser' process hammers the CPU, for no discernible reason. From searching, I see many unanswered questions about this. It'd be nice if this issue were addressed.

          Before upgrading, using v65, I didn't have any problems like this at all.

          System CPU usage is 35% for Opera. Process explorer shows:
          c5d63f5e-c39f-481f-94c1-cd36fe8a19b6-image.png

          It's the same every time, in getHandlerVerifier, which I can't find more information about.

          Opera's internal task manager shows the browser process at 146% or higher, constantly.

          This is regardless of what tabs are open.

          I kill the useless "Opera Touch" process every time on start up, which is something that wasn't in older versions; doesn't make a difference. I'll note this doesn't start with opening the browser, it happens after, and again, isn't related to a specific site.

          After killing all processes, one by one, it stopped after killing the Network Utility service; I didn't have to restart the browser, which has been the only way to stop this before. (If left, it will keep hammering CPU; for hours)

          Someone must know something. I've depended on Opera for some critical work related tasks so this is disconcerting and untenable and I would welcome suggestions. (I did do the whole clean install (on another system) in addition to the upgraded browser, and it's the same thing, so this isn't an issue with extensions, flags, commandline switches, cookies, cached code, etc.)

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          • donq
            donq @darkpassenger last edited by

            @darkpassenger
            Very good analyzis, thank you! Did you report your findings to Opera team, using their support / bug report page? (O menu - help - report an issue)

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            • Martin1841
              Martin1841 last edited by

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              CPU at over 20% when literally no tabs are open. I have i5-10600. That's 6c/12t.
              So what Opera is doing with my processor?

              For comparison, I can play 4 YT videos at 4K at the same time in Opera and the CPU usage will be around 7-8%.
              So why does my CPU run at 20% with only speed dial running? Speed dial is not even a tab but a kind of "main menu".

              What are you guys doing? Is it something nasty? Something dark? Are you spying on me or my friends? Scanning my documents on my disk?

              I am using Opera since 2006. Should I switch to Vivaldi or should I stay?

              Thank you for your explanation.

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer @Martin1841 last edited by

                @martin1841 You can use Shift + Esc to see which processes are using that "much" CPU.

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                • g4mingfr34k
                  g4mingfr34k last edited by

                  My Opera always runs at highest capacity (right now it is using 3 Gigs of Ram) even tho it just needs a fraction of that.
                  How can I toggle it down a notch?

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @g4mingfr34k last edited by

                    @g4mingfr34k Use Shift + Esc to see what is using that much RAM.

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                      Spoc21 @leocg last edited by This post is deleted!
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                      • tasha1241
                        tasha1241 last edited by

                        Opera is eating up so much of my PC resources. Anyone with an idea how to regulate it?

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                        • leocg
                          leocg Moderator Volunteer @tasha1241 last edited by

                          @tasha1241 Use Shift + Esc to see the processes running in Opera and how much memory they are using.

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                          • catscrath25
                            catscrath25 last edited by

                            image_2022-08-23_161244980.png here since no one can seemingly follow directions on this board. hopefully this helps

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                            • domxch
                              domxch last edited by domxch

                              Hi, I have a problem since upgrade to Opera 86.X.
                              Usage of CPU is very high, almost 50% for couple of minutes, can be reproduced when you open more windows with plenty of tabs (e. .g. currently opened 10 windows, each window in average 5 tabs) and starts typing in the URL address bar (probably issue regarding changes of the URL bar).
                              Tested without any extensions, the biggest consumption is done by the "Background worker".
                              Pretty annoying and expensive...
                              When I downgrade to Opera 85.0.4341.75, everything is OK.

                              I have also reported a bug, however, nobody has answered yet.
                              https://opera.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/9/BS-33628

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                              • leocg
                                leocg Moderator Volunteer @domxch last edited by

                                @domxch Current stable version is 91, it still behaves the same?

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                                • domxch
                                  domxch @leocg last edited by

                                  @leocg, yes, unfortunately it is the same (my current version is 91.0.4516.65).

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                                  • OrbitalVSAT
                                    OrbitalVSAT last edited by

                                    I had Opera running with 16gb ram, and it was using 6gb of it.
                                    I just upgraded to 32gb ram, and it starts using 14gb now.

                                    Same tabs open, nothing changed and no viruses.

                                    Did anyone have this before? If so, how was it fixed?

                                    Thanks in advance

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                                    • leocg
                                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @OrbitalVSAT last edited by

                                      @orbitalvsat You can use Shift + Esc to view the processes running in Opera and how much memory they are using.

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                                      • donq
                                        donq @OrbitalVSAT last edited by

                                        @orbitalvsat said in The High CPU/RAM/ETC Usage Topic:

                                        I just upgraded to 32gb ram, and it starts using 14gb now.

                                        Is this a problem? Unless Opera (or any other process) takes all free memory to itself and makes other apps work slower, IMO memory consumption is not a big problem. You have 18GB left for other tasks, after all 🙂

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                                        • figjadeitesingerpie
                                          figjadeitesingerpie last edited by

                                          When I use Opera GX, The Process "GPU process" appears, when i close it, the browser goes dark for like a second, but then the process restarts. It eats a lot of CPU usage. image_2022-10-25_225313528.png

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                                          • cratte
                                            cratte last edited by leocg

                                            Opera was too slow. 😞
                                            Version:92.0.4561.21
                                            But i found a Solution - and and a severe Opera error?

                                            Opera used too much CPU and Harddisk in the Windows task manager.
                                            This also together with the "System" Task. 😞

                                            I looked in the Opera Task-Manager and found that "Tab Speed Dial" is using too much CPU when pages are loading.
                                            So in options i unchecked, disabled "Show Speed Dial Suggestions" and at once it runs much faster! 😃

                                            This must be an Opera error because this has nothing to do with opening new tabs with speed dials.

                                            AND System Task is quiet now too 🙂
                                            Perhaps this could be no coincidence and is also a Windows error.

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