Request: Lower Memory Usage

Request: Lower Memory Usage

Request: Please make the memory usage a bit lower. Currently, normal browsing takes up 1/4th of a Gigabyte. This is too much for old computers. (I have plenty of RAM, by the way )

It's for me allready very low.
I can have 10 tabs open and then just hit the 250MB, now with two tabs open I hit 150MB.

I seen it with just two pages open even drop under the 100MB when I have a lot of other programs open.

How much RAM Opera uses is based on how much RAM you have available. So you can't say that the amount Opera uses on your PC is too much for old computers, as it would not be the same. Also, there is no point of having much RAM, if it isn't used. If you have plenty of RAM available, Opera should use much RAM. Otherwise, the RAM would just be wasted.

I think there is/are bugs that are resulting in too much memory usage, whether or not it's a good thing that an application uses what is available. Eg, with the Guardian.co.uk site it frequently maxes the memory, bug has been reported for that site. It will happily take 99% of my cpu, which is unreaasonable.

Without Guardian, 270,166 K, several hours use.
Rob

Using Windows 3367 XP Pro

I just had the browser open all night just to see if there where problems with Hi mem use.
I only had youtube open, but that one did give people problems.

But on my I can say, no problems at all. Stable as an rock all at 150MB

Originally posted by ytsmabeer:

I just had the browser open all night just to see if there where problems with Hi mem use.
I only had youtube open, but that one did give people problems.
But on my I can say, no problems at all. Stable as an rock all at 150MB

As they say, your mileage may vary. After a couple of hours mine is at over 1GB of RAM (out of 2GB). On Opensuse 11.2 (32-bit), KDE 4.4. Opera has been exhibiting this behaviour for a couple of snapshots now.

I don't have consistent behavior (likely depending on what I have open), but ever since the 10.5x series sometimes my whole computer will be horribly slow if I come back after it's been on for a night because Opera memory usage has skyrocketed.

It's reasonable right now at 500MB.

It uses too much for me, yesterday even almost 1Gb!!! this is definitely far to much. It makes my PC slower, my RAM is usually around the 35%, it now hits the 70% regularly, only because of Opera.

150MB with the speed dial open. Why so much? Where is this memory used for?

EDIT: BTW, the 1Gb was on my Vista desktop. On the 7 laptop it uses almost 40MB. 40! Why is it with Vista (when starting up) already 80/90MB?

I've noticed that Opera will usually take all available memory at startup, to load the existing session... And then, after a few minutes (or hours), will progressively 'give back' unused memory to other programs as needed. I currently have 400MB available with my 200+ tabs session, and I only had less than 50MB available when I started that session. Doesn't seem like a problem, to me. On the contrary, it's very flexible.

What I would like in Opera, though, would be a task manager like Chrome's. When I'm crazy enough to use Chrome, one of the rare things I like in it is the fact that if it gets slow, I get open their mini-task manager and determine which tab(s) are taken all of the CPU resources. Then I can safely close these tabs to make it easier for my CPU.

Right now I'm having 50% of CPU used, that's 100% of one of my cores. I have no idea which tab is using it all. I usually try to close all tabs, one by one, and when I find the 'culprit' (i.e. CPU use drops drammatically after I closed a single tab), I reopen everything (ctrl+alt+Z), and then I close the tab in question.
Of course, when you have hundreds of tabs, it's not particularly a funny thing to do. So -- I would love Opera to be open about which tabs are annoying me!

Originally posted by Nao:

Right now I'm having 50% of CPU used, that's 100% of one of my cores. I have no idea which tab is using it all. I usually try to close all tabs, one by one, and when I find the 'culprit' (i.e. CPU use drops drammatically after I closed a single tab), I reopen everything (ctrl+alt+Z), and then I close the tab in question.

Of course, when you have hundreds of tabs, it's not particularly a funny thing to do. So -- I would love Opera to be open about which tabs are annoying me! " width="17" height="17">

Perhaps the ultimate would be to intensify the colour of the tabs, depending on how much memory was being used? I really have not much clue about tabs and skins, but perhaps colour/intensity could dynamically alter, according to pre-set configurations.

Originally posted by ytsmabeer:

I can have 10 tabs open and then just hit the 250MB, now with two tabs open I hit 150MB.



I seen it with just two pages open even drop under the 100MB when I have a lot of other programs open.

Opera doesn't seem to release memory (for me at least) after closing tabs. if i use Opera for normal browsing for 20 mins then close all tabs (only speed dial open), memory usage stays high at previous level with all tabs open.

i also tried making tab recycle bin empty with no luck.