[Opera-Linux] Huge-memory-suckage-uppage update

[Kenneth Crudup]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen wrote:

> Maybe.  Of course, since opera for linux runs the plug-ins themselves in
> their own processes, memory used by the plug-ins should not show up in
> the memory size of the opera process.  But plug-ins may request various
> things from opera, and maybe some of that causes opera to use lots of
> memory.

> > ... [then] reinstall the 64-bit, shared Beta and turn off Plugins to
> > see if I can figure out what's making Opera grow to many GB in size.

> Yes, that sounds like a useful test.

Get this- Opera Beta 64-bit with plugins turned off just *shrank* from
3.5G VM to 1.8GB VM, under a normal browsing mode. I had to check it
three times to make sure I'm not insane. :)

	-Kenny

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