Opera keeps lagging and eating up memory

[mmmatukas]

mmmatukas last edited by

I used to have 30 tabs open at a time and I faced 0 issues. Now I can have 10 open and it starts acting super slow. Checking the task manager, Opera is just taking up 5GB worth of memory. The lag is horrible. This can't be an issue with the computer, everything else works awesomely. How to fix this?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @mmmatukas last edited by

@mmmatukas Opera One, Opera GX or Opera Air?

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @mmmatukas last edited by

@mmmatukas menu - developer - task manager or shift escape.

See if there is any process using too much RAM or CPU

[mmmatukas]

mmmatukas @leocg last edited by

@leocg Had the issue on normal opera too but right now I'm on GX. There's nothing in particular, opera is around 3-4gb of memory and it's the highest of all. The next app is just 0,3gb.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @mmmatukas last edited by

@mmmatukas So there is no process running in Opera that is using too much RAM? So maybe there are just many processes running using a normal amount of RAM?

[Nearmelab]

Nearmelab @mmmatukas last edited by

@mmmatukas , Did you test the 10 tabs in private mode when extensions are not active?

Also did you benefit from the RAM limiter which allows to set hard limits or fine-tune exactly how much memory GX can use.

[mmmatukas]

mmmatukas @leocg last edited by

@leocg Yes. There's no single process using too much RAM. For example with 15 tabs open, it says 36 tabs. I guess it splits websites up into multiple processes

[mmmatukas]

mmmatukas @Nearmelab last edited by

@Nearmelab I'll try and see how it works. I only have the opera adblocker extension though.
Wouldn't using the RAM limiter make it even slower?

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @mmmatukas last edited by

@mmmatukas If you are talking about Windows task manager, it doesn't show number of tabs but number of processes as the name of the tab says.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @mmmatukas last edited by leocg

@mmmatukas And, yes, Chromium is multi process. But it doesn't split pages on multiple processes.

There is a main process, one process for each tab, one for each extension, one for video, one for sound, one for network, etc

[saimayob220]

saimayob220 @leocg last edited by

@leocg I'll try and see how it works. I only have the opera adblocker extension though.
Wouldn't using the RAM limiter make it even slower?

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @saimayob220 last edited by

@saimayob220 As I said, go to menu - developer - task manager or use shift escape to see the processes running in Opera and check if there are any using a lot of RAM or CPU.