The High CPU/RAM/ETC Usage Topic
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figjadeitesingerpie last edited by
Also I forgot to mention, that the Opera GX uses the most RAM & CPU.
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taffercharles last edited by leocg
I started using opera for it's low CPU usage, but now (I think ever since they added this AI thingy) is now super high even with one or two tabs. I already "disabled" the AI prompts, (even though the process is still there and won't go away). I have no idea how to decrease it's usage further.
And yes, I know about GX, i use that one as well. But I still liked the old opera better when I could simply browse without my PC starting to make mild noise. And I would also rather not have to migrate everything once more.
I feel like this is one of those things when they make the platform worse without knowing it. But these things matter to folks. It's actually a big deal.
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MrBoo337 last edited by
Hi all! Quite a long time ago I ran into a problem that one of the opera processes starts to heavily load the CPU. If you try to close this process, then the entire opera closes. I also tried disabling extensions, but the problem did not go away.
Is there a way to monitor opera resources (like task manager)? Is there any way to find out what the problem is? -
arseniy4 last edited by
I also have high COU usage recently. Like recent month
This sucks so much. I used opera cuz it used less than others and now it seems it does not. The usage is by process "browser" if I open task manager Shift+Esc -
nldav last edited by
I moved away from Opera some month(s) ago because of performance issues with zero tabs and zero extensions active.
But what I noticed is that Opera hangs on history. I now had the time to do more investigation and for me the 105% CPU browser usage @Shift-Esc disappears when I rename my history file
@ C:\Users[Windows username]\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable
I renamed the file "History" to "History" and my zero tab CPU 105% usage disappeared instantly. The only problem is that your history is gone as well ^^.
Might give Opera another try. Because Brave browser is also not the perfect alternative.
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szfzafa last edited by
@nldav I've been using my profiles for over 2 yrs.
Then I tried to Create a clean profile folder/directory as Instructions on posting about problems in Opera for Windows says. Then the problem is gone. Then I restored my profile folder, the problem just reoccurs.
I doubt if they even run performance tests with heavy loads of profile/history data. -
dinub1 last edited by
On my PC system, an Intel based 8 core CPU running at around 4.5 GHz on turbo, with water cooler...
The CPU temp shown on Core-temp reaches 100 C. That is the max temp, this CPU is designed for. The CPU usage in proces explorer, is high and fluctuates... It can reach 30% which is very high.
Meanwhile using Google Chrome, the usage of both CPU and RAM is much lower... and the CPU temp is decreasing... -
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thepooburner last edited by
This post was very helpful. My OperaGX suddenly jumped to eating all CPU unless I limited it, and even then it would eat every ounce of CPU within that limit. It was constant and restarting didn't fix it. This thread's advice to use the built in task manager (shift+ESC), that I didn't know existed, was exactly what I needed. I don't have screenshots, but I saw that the process using the most CPU and RAM was an extension process that had "background" in the title. I opened my speed dial and looked at my nifty animated background choking to death on itself and realized that was the problem.
It seems that Opera is still displaying the animated background across all tabs (of which I have many opened) regardless of if the background is actually visible or not. As soon as I disabled the animated background (all backgrounds actually) the CPU and RAM dropped instantly down to 2-3% from the 30% I had it limited to. I got another small drop by disabling the matrix widget. And then realizing I never use the widget on the speed-dial screen I just disabled widgets entirely. My system is performing significantly better now that I've turned these functionally useless frills off.
I hope this helps others who are running into the same issue to resolve it. It may just be that you have some useless feature turned on that is running wild in the background when it shouldn't be.
