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

[Patricia Aas]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:57:31 +0200, Kenneth Crudup <kenny at panix.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>

Can you report a bug and try to make a "minimal" testcase? Maybe a small  
session with which you can reproduce?

Patricia

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