Re: So, try and tell me Opera doesn't leak memory like a sieve

Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.opera.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Kenneth Crudup <[email protected]> writes:

>> >  Total size of 3.5G and an in-core size of 2.3G (that's GIGAbytes, boys
>> >  and girls)? Seriously?!
>
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>
>> I can confirm this here, too, on Gentoo with Opera 9.63.
>
> Well, this is the latest Beta. VM of *SEVEN-GIGA-FREAKIN'-BYTES*?! ... For
> a web-browser? Two and a half GIGABYTES of active RAM? This browser has
> only been up about 7 hours, too.

Ouch!  That is pretty bad.

> What gives, Opera devs? Certainly y'all are seeing this, too?!

No.  My operas are:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 5382 eirik     20   0 1156m 246m  10m S  0.7 25.2 513:21.53 opera
 3135 eirik     20   0  524m  94m 9884 S  0.3  9.6 158:40.01 opera

(Both of them opera 9.62, both have probably been running for a month
or two...  One of them have way too many tabs open (though only about
40 right now), and who knows how many tabs in the garbage can.)

However, I have family (on windows) who have been complaining for
years that opera eats up about as much memory as it can (i.e. around
3GB) after a couple of hours.  Sometimes leading to a complete system
crash.

It is tempting to guess that it may be related to exactly which pages
are being viewed.  Since this is linux, I guess we can assume that it
is not plug-ins that are leaking (since they aren't running in the
same process.  Except java, which isn't a "plug-in").

eirik
--
Opera-Linux: https://list.opera.com/mailman/listinfo/opera-linux
More lists: https://list.opera.com/mailman/listinfo/
Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.