Memory usage is quite excessive - am I doing something wrong?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Hi all,

I am running Opera 19 on Win XP SP3 with 2GB ram.

When I run Opera (with only 1 tab open), Task Manager shows no less than 8 instances of Opera and 1 Opera crash reporter.

These together use some 650 mb of RAM.

Is this normal for Opera?

I have a few extensions such as DuckDuckGo, a bookmark manager, history eraser and a print thing.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Dave

[leocg]

leocg Moderator last edited by

Originally posted by zzdave:

When I run Opera (with only 1 tab open), Task Manager shows no less than 8 instances of Opera and 1 Opera crash reporter.

This is normal.

Originally posted by zzdave:

These together use some 650 mb of RAM.

This would depend on the page, plugins, extensions and so on.

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 last edited by

Webkit/Blink/Chrom-ish rendering engines (upon which Opera >15 is based) use one process ("instance") for itself, one for each opened tab, and one for each extension... so 8 processes is not a surprising number. The intent of that particular engine design is that a crash in one process will not take down all the others, unlike a single-process browser where a crash in a tab or extension will probably take down the whole browser. Just because there are multiple processes running does not inherently mean the combined memory usage must be very high . That depends on what's going on in each process. Some content in a tab or some extensions when running take a lot more memory than others.