Opera 10 runaway memory usage

krush

Tha fuck??? Every now and then when I'm using Opera, I notice it slowing to a crawl. I vener thought about it much 'cause a quick close and reopen takes care of it. Today, it kept happening over and over. I had a number of tabs up, nothing odd about that at all but it juse seemed to draaaaaag no matter what. For one reason or another, I looked checked out it's memory usage in Task Manager only to find Opera sucking up over 600MB of RAM! I start poking around Opera and I find there's options to turn off RAM cache and whatnot and drop everything to either zero or minimal (i.e. 20MB disk cache). close/reopen and I watched Opera climb up to over 500MB before I close it again. this time I reopen it and start closing tabs one at a time... nothing. I'm left with only the tab pointed at Newegg left and close/reopen Opera: It hit 192MB when I reopened it. Cleared all manner of cache and history and reopen Opera. Go to Newegg and it hit 192MB again. I click on the link to look at CPU's and I hit 430MB of RAM.

what kinda shit is this???

Just compare the two, I opened up FireFox 3.5.8 to see how it did with the same site: 64MB, the problem is with Opera.

Anyone know how to stop Opera from making a run on my RAM???

Dranyth

Do you have the newest version which is 10.51?

Not sure what else to say other than I have Opera open right now with 16 tabs open and it's running at a cool 143MB on a machine with 2GB of RAM.


Edit: Interestingly, after I visited Newegg, my Opera memory usage jumped to 160MB, then 180MB and even now after I closed my Newegg tabs a while ago, I'm now sitting at about 226MB usage. Strange.

TychoCelchuuu

Dranyth: Opera will use lots of RAM unless another program asks for it. It's a superior solution because Opera will run fast and it also won't hog memory.

krush: no idea. Sorry. Uninstall + reinstall?

Dranyth

That's typically how most programs work.

I just thought it was interesting that I already had 16 tabs open and it wasn't using that much but when I started around Newegg it really started jumping up quickly.

Bionic Monkey

krush wrote: »

Tha fuck??? Every now and then when I'm using Opera, I notice it slowing to a crawl. I vener thought about it much 'cause a quick close and reopen takes care of it. Today, it kept happening over and over. I had a number of tabs up, nothing odd about that at all but it juse seemed to draaaaaag no matter what. For one reason or another, I looked checked out it's memory usage in Task Manager only to find Opera sucking up over 600MB of RAM! I start poking around Opera and I find there's options to turn off RAM cache and whatnot and drop everything to either zero or minimal (i.e. 20MB disk cache). close/reopen and I watched Opera climb up to over 500MB before I close it again. this time I reopen it and start closing tabs one at a time... nothing. I'm left with only the tab pointed at Newegg left and close/reopen Opera: It hit 192MB when I reopened it. Cleared all manner of cache and history and reopen Opera. Go to Newegg and it hit 192MB again. I click on the link to look at CPU's and I hit 430MB of RAM.

what kinda shit is this???

Just compare the two, I opened up FireFox 3.5.8 to see how it did with the same site: 64MB, the problem is with Opera.

Anyone know how to stop Opera from making a run on my RAM???

Are you running 10.51 or 10.10? I was having the same issue with 10.10, just not as drastically. I tend to keep my browser open more or less permanently, and just open and close tabs as I need them. Over the course of a few hours, 10.10 would start hogging more and more RAM, to the point where it wouldn't even close, I'd have to end task from TM. 10.51 seems to have cleared up this issue.

Tamin

10.51 seems to be a lot more unstable than previous versions. I've had a couple of crashes recently, as well as getting the same memory hogging attitude - if I minimize it, it drops drastically (which is correct behavior). Normally it's very good about giving back memory, but if I leave it running while playing, say, DA: O, the memory usage makes the loading take upwards of 3 minutes. By contrast, after closing Opera, the same fight loaded in roughly 10 seconds.

krush

10.10 Build 1893.

Bionic Monkey

Yeah, try upgrading to 10.51 and let us know how it goes.

Tamin wrote: »

10.51 seems to be a lot more unstable than previous versions. I've had a couple of crashes recently, as well as getting the same memory hogging attitude - if I minimize it, it drops drastically (which is correct behavior). Normally it's very good about giving back memory, but if I leave it running while playing, say, DA: O, the memory usage makes the loading take upwards of 3 minutes. By contrast, after closing Opera, the same fight loaded in roughly 10 seconds.

See, I've had the opposite experience. At least since I've upgraded to Win7 that is. On XP, 9.x was pretty rock solid, but under W7 it started getting buggy and eating RAM up until 10.51.

Tamin

Bionic Monkey wrote: »

Yeah, try upgrading to 10.51 and let us know how it goes.

Tamin wrote: »

10.51 seems to be a lot more unstable than previous versions. I've had a couple of crashes recently, as well as getting the same memory hogging attitude - if I minimize it, it drops drastically (which is correct behavior). Normally it's very good about giving back memory, but if I leave it running while playing, say, DA: O, the memory usage makes the loading take upwards of 3 minutes. By contrast, after closing Opera, the same fight loaded in roughly 10 seconds.

See, I've had the opposite experience. At least since I've upgraded to Win7 that is. On XP, 9.x was pretty rock solid, but under W7 it started getting buggy and eating RAM up until 10.51.

Well, I just purchased a new computer and will be installing W7 64-bit on it very quickly. Right now I'm on XP x64.

Xenogears of Bore

I'm running two older computers (8 years and 5 years) and all I do is keep it updated and remember to close all processes on it about once every week or ten days.

Sites with bad or too much flash coding tend to chew RAM up faster, but that's true of any browser.