[Opera-Linux] So, try and tell me Opera doesn't leak memory like a sieve

[Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen]

Kenneth Crudup <kenny at panix.com> 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