[Compilation] Discussions on Opera using a high amount of RAM and having OOM messages on YouTube

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Jakobe12 last edited by

@jakobe12 said:

I went to my task manager and holy guacomole, its taking up 700 - 1000 MBs of memory on its own

That's a very normal memory usage

when I try pulling up a youtube video its shoots up to 1500

Still normal
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and continually rises until it hits about 6,500 MBs and then it crashes

There seems to be a memory leak

[killopx]

killopx @Jakobe12 last edited by

@jakobe12 I have the same problem and apparently this only happens when visiting a website that plays videos

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @killopx last edited by sgunhouse

@killopx Most reports I've seen seem tied to live streams, and seem to indicate a similar issue on Chrome. Unfortunately if it is a bug in the underlying Chromium engine then it may be up to Chromium to fix.

Having said that ... it sounds to me like the browser is trying to keep the entire stream in memory, which is guaranteed to overwhelm RAM after only a few minutes.

[MateusDrte13]

MateusDrte13 last edited by leocg

Opera Gx consuming 3000Mbs of memory with high power consumption, sometimes giving insufficient memory. What should I do?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @MateusDrte13 last edited by

@mateusdrte13 You stared a topic with just an image and no (con)text on it, what is not allowed. Fixed it for you this time.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @MateusDrte13 last edited by

@mateusdrte13 It happens only on YouTube? On any videos?

[Jakobe12]

Jakobe12 @leocg last edited by

@leocg Weird, I read that around 200 MBs was the norm, oh well, anyway how do I fix a memory leak in opera?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Jakobe12 last edited by

@jakobe12 200MB per tab on a regular tab. A tab with media (video mainly) can take more than 500MB on a not so high resolution.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Jakobe12 last edited by

@jakobe12 Opera will need to fix it most probably. What you can do is to try to avoid it, if you know what triggers the memory leak.

[NekoHaru]

NekoHaru last edited by

i found a way to fix this

just disable opera gx built in ad blocker by doing it it takes 6gb less memory and no longer has any problem

[MateusDrte13]

MateusDrte13 @leocg last edited by

@leocg sorry! my english is not so good, so i thought i had published it right.

[MateusDrte13]

MateusDrte13 @leocg last edited by

@leocg yes, it only happens on youtube, it's becoming more and more common. I've been using opera for almost 2 years, this is the first time it's happened

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @MateusDrte13 last edited by

@mateusdrte13 Any difference if you disable all extensions?

[MateusDrte13]

MateusDrte13 @leocg last edited by

@leocg no, just for a better way to control my sound and also to read text from photos (https://webextension.org/listing/ocr.html) and (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/volume-master-controlador/jghecgabfgfdldnmbfkhmffcabddioke)

[Jakobe12]

Jakobe12 @NekoHaru last edited by

@nekoharu no offense bro but I already said I did that in the original post.

[Jakobe12]

Jakobe12 @leocg last edited by

@leocg Ok, so 200 is the standard for just a regular tab, I tested this and a tab with nothing on it is around 500 MBs, I know it's not a huge deal because I have a lot of memory, but I still want to know why its more than double the normal amount.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Jakobe12 last edited by

@jakobe12 There isn't a standard number, the amount of memory used may depends on a lot of factors.

[southc]

southc last edited by

Opera GX is using high memory ram in the recent updates (it was fine last month) well looks like we can't use a same tab to watch videos, if you open a video you need to close the tab and open the new video on new tab to reset the memory. hope you fix this memory leak. i have 16gb ram and sometimes i have out of memory message. below a print of gx control

[MateusDrte13]

MateusDrte13 @leocg last edited by

@leocg is there anything i can do? i've restarted my computer and reinstalled opera, but it hasn't worked. youtube is getting slower every day and is consuming more and more memory

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @MateusDrte13 last edited by

@mateusdrte13 Some people are saying that disabling adblocker may help.