[Opera-Linux] OK, what can I do about Opera's never-ending thirst for memory?!

[Kenneth Crudup]

Seriously- if there's some way for me to determine (the maps in /proc/,
what?) WHY Opera (any version, I'm currently running the latest Beta)
uses SO MUCH <insert expletive here> MEMORY, I'd love to know.

Y'all have gotten it SO stable that it never crashes anymore (seriously!)
and even Java and most plugins work, but I end up having to periodically
shut it down 'cause once it grows to over a VM of *NINE* GBs, and 3GB
in-core, it sucks up all the swap (so I can't suspend) and just bringing
another process to the front takes forever as its pages are brought back in.

I do use Opera on several sites full of pictures and such; and open and
close a bunch of windows. Is there any setting I can set to maybe make
it use less memory? I've got "Memory Cache" set to "Automatic", but
changing it to something else didn't seem to help much.

This is the 64-bit Qt3 shared version, BTW.

	-Kenny

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