The High CPU/RAM/GPU Usage Topic - Opera for Desktops
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arant last edited by
Sorry for writing for a second topic, but this was my main issue that I was here for. As I explained in my previous post, I had to write this from Chrome because of a log in issue.
I'm on :
Version:74.0.3911.203
System:macOS Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G103) 10.14.6 64-bitI've disabled every ad blocker and extension.
And only 2-3 tabs are open on my Opera; the forums tab, the extensions tab and the about tab.
Despite this my fans has been running loud non stop for hours.
I can normally work on multiple Opera windows and tens (sometimes over a hundred, close to 200) tabs for my work. I normally use extensions like The Great Suspender and Session Buddy to take off the load off, but I've disabled everything now. I've worked this way with Opera for many years without any problems.
And yet, for the past few days, my fans have been going up non stop even at the smallest of actions.
I looked at the Task Manager, the browser in total was taking up about to 1~ GB and it was normal for me. All the tabs seemed idle or taking up really small space (I don't know if I'm wording this right, this is not my main language)
Anyway, since the fans didn't stop no matter what I did, and the macbook started overheating, I cleared every tab, removed as many extensions as I could one by one (I only had 4-5 active ones anyway), disabled the ad blockers and the fans still didn't stop.
Then I restarted the browser, which didn't make a difference. Having 1 tab was no different than having many.
After close to an hour, there finally seemed to be some calm, and this time I shut down the wi-fi and restarted the browser this way. This time, even though there was no connection, the fans still went up really loud for about half an hour.
This never happened with Opera before. I don't exactly remember if there had been an update recently, but if it did could it be related?
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alobpreis last edited by@piotrsss said in The High CPU/RAM/GPU Usage Topic - Opera for Desktops:
@vilnai Yep, I see that too, they changed something today and Opera is currently useless. More reports here https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/m1gck6/am_i_the_only_one_whose_speed_dial_just_doesnt/
I found these other two posts about this issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/m1mh5m/opera_uses_an_insane_amount_of_cpu_on_startup/
https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/m1n52m/opera_started_using_too_much_ram_and_cpu/
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A Former User last edited by
Hello everyone. Updated Opera And noticed that the laptop began to use forced cooling often. Opera 74.0.3911.203, Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (x86_64; ubuntu: GNOME) ... htop shows that opera is loading core sometimes multiple CPU cores (ryzen 5 4600u) by 100% ... while several non-"heavy" tabs were opened ... static pages/
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@alexdmake Probably related to the same issue everyone else is having (Windows, Mac and Linux) today with speed dial not showing and high CPU load. Since it only happens at startup and is platform-independent, it has to be something with Opera's servers - my guess is something with Sync.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@sgunhouse HI,I had a problem while the browser was running a long time after launch.
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arant last edited by
I shut down the macbook last night and opened this morning; a few tabs in and all in sleep mode (i had to activate the extensions and adblockers back). Despite all of the tabs being in sleep mode, the fans are still running high. Sometimes they get really low, to the point they seem like they're going to stop, but as soon as I start working on anything small, they rise up again.
This never happened with Opera before unless I was doing some heavy work, or had multiple apps like Adobe in the background. Right now I have nothing except Opera (and currently chrome for writing this).
Please help!
(And once again, I'm writing this from Chrome, because like I wrote in a previous thread, I get an error when trying to log in here from Opera)
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PiotrSss last edited by
The problem is now gone. Open Opera, wait few minutes and force close it. After that it should be updated. But it's crazy to waste so much time on this (migrating to other browser when that happens), so I'll just stick with the other one now, hard to trust Opera after that sh**** action.
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ynhockey last edited by
@limpemu Actually it no longer crashes for me nowadays, except the occasional tab crash. It still takes up huge resources, primarily RAM, though. It is therefore difficult to say what was causing the crashes. However, I do use the Opera task manager all the time, and some tabs do cause very high RAM and CPU usage. Extensions are not the culprit in my case.
In the case of GPU acceleration, as long as the browser doesn't crash I don't see a reason to turn it off, since it offloads some resources from the already-overused CPU. However, it's a good idea to try this if you are still experiencing crashes.
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alobpreis last edited by
@alobpreis said in The High CPU/RAM/GPU Usage Topic - Opera for Desktops:
This started maybe an hour ago. I noticed one of the opera.exe processes was using 25% of the CPU (4 cores), so I closed probably "heavy" pages, but nothing changed. Opened Opera's task manager, and only thing using the CPU is the browser itself with 100%. So I close Opera and that single opera.exe process remains in memory, still consuming 25%.
Without having updated Opera, this is not happening anymore, so I guess it was related to some Opera server as mentioned above or maybe a hidden internal extension.
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alexweefs last edited by
I am a pretty heavy user and generally have 100+ tabs open at any time.
Usually this posed no issue on any of my PCs, which have between 16GB and 32GB of RAM.
On some occasions, I got individual page crashes, but when I reloaded the page,
it would reduce the RAM usage elsewhere and properly load the page.
However, recently, I think as of version 65 (but could have been earlier),
Opera keeps crashing all the time with high RAM usage.
I suspect it also has to do with the GPU memory, as it happens more often with GPU-intensive websites like video sites.
However, what I see directly is just that heavier RAM usage causes crashes, and a general slowdown of the system.
The frequency is about 2–3 crashes per hour.
Has anyone else experienced this?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@alexweefs Having hundreds of tabs opened don't make you a heavy user, it just shows that you may have some difficult in closing the tabs that you open.
Back to the issue, use shift + esc to open the internal task manager and check if there is some process using that much CPU, RAM, whatever.
By the way, version 65 is two years old, not that recent.
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johnbrook last edited by johnbrookOpera is using more than 25% CPU in the process "opera --password-store=basic --enable-crashpad" every time I open the browser and it stays open whenever Opera browser is open. It's impossible to use the browser like that.
Kubuntu 22.04 64 bit
Opera 93.0.4585.11 installed from https://snapcraft.io/opera
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N4i75irHc1371 last edited by leocgBut what are you up to, damn it, Opera has been sucking up all the memory for 4 days and the PC is slowing down, what are you up to!!!!
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@n4i75irhc1371 Shift Escape to see the processes running in Opera and how much RAM they are using.
RAM usage seems normal.
