Are you running Opera-VPN?

As soon as I turn on VPN my memory consumption goes through the roof. As an example I turned it on 10 minutes ago an and the opera task manager already reports the browser at 1.6 GB which will rise to 8 GB and more, completely immobilizing my Windows 7 system.

I was running regular Opera for Windows, but currently on beta (44.0.2510.433 (PGO)) because I was hoping for a better experience, but it's identical.

Anything I can do on my side?