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 | | From: | john | | Subject: | Memory Leak? | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:32:15 GMT |
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 | Opera seems to have a memory leak. .....
I start up Windows and Windows Task Manager, and my Commit Charge is around
155 -160 megs. I start up Opera and it goes up about 10 megs. This seems
normal and fine; however, over several hours it keeps climbing until it
reaches my memory limit of 500 megs, and Windows tells me it needs to
increase the swap file. This happens even if I'm not even doing anything --
Opera doesn't even have a page open, and the PC is just sitting there idle
for a few hours.
What the heck? is there some option to turn off? This sucks. Part of the
beauty of tabbed browsing is that I can have lots of web pages open and
organized at the same time, and I usually leave them up for several days or
a week, until I'm done with my project; but I have to shut Opera down
periodically or I keep running out of memory, so I'm better off with Firefox
because I don't need to shut it down until I shut the machine off. I'm
starting to regret paying for Opera. Maybe I just need to shut some option
off, or something simple like that. ........ Any ideas? I'm not even
using Opera mail at all yet. Could it be the RSS channels?
Win2k, Opera (paid) 7.54u1, build 3918
thanks,
John
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| | From: | Richard Grevers | | Subject: | Re: Memory Leak? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:28:46 +1300 |
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| On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:32:15 GMT, john wrote:
> Opera seems to have a memory leak. .....
>
> I start up Windows and Windows Task Manager, and my Commit Charge is
> around
> 155 -160 megs. I start up Opera and it goes up about 10 megs. This
> seems
> normal and fine; however, over several hours it keeps climbing until it
> reaches my memory limit of 500 megs, and Windows tells me it needs to
> increase the swap file. This happens even if I'm not even doing
> anything --
> Opera doesn't even have a page open, and the PC is just sitting there
> idle
> for a few hours.
>
> What the heck? is there some option to turn off?
> Win2k, Opera (paid) 7.54u1, build 3918
>
Interesting, because with the same build on the same OS, a Gigabyte of
mail and a couple of RSS feeds, Opera just runs happily for 2-3 weeks
between restarts. But Firefox dies after a couple of days (gmail seems to
become unresponsive, whereas on O8 beta Gmail just works and works.
The only thing I can think of is that there's some page which you always
have loaded with a leaky flash movie or java applet.
Or given that you don't use mail, what is your default panel? (I always
have the mail panel open, but its possible that one of the other panels
leaks)
--
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
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| | From: | john | | Subject: | Re: Memory Leak? | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:34:56 GMT |
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| >
> Interesting, because with the same build on the same OS, a Gigabyte of
> mail and a couple of RSS feeds, Opera just runs happily for 2-3 weeks
> between restarts. But Firefox dies after a couple of days (gmail seems to
> become unresponsive, whereas on O8 beta Gmail just works and works.
>
hmmmmm, that's strange.
> The only thing I can think of is that there's some page which you always
> have loaded with a leaky flash movie or java applet.
> Or given that you don't use mail, what is your default panel? (I always
> have the mail panel open, but its possible that one of the other panels
> leaks)
>
I don't even have to have a web page open. I usually have the mail panel
open (for the newsfeeds), but I just tried it with the bookmark panel and it
still happens. I noticed it hits the CPU every 60 seconds, does yours do
that too? Might I have some log going? I'm limited to about 2 or 3 hours
and then the memory messages start ... "windows is increasing your page
file....."
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| | From: | Richard Grevers | | Subject: | Re: Memory Leak? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:06:07 +1300 |
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| On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:34:56 GMT, john wrote:
>>
>> Interesting, because with the same build on the same OS, a Gigabyte of
>> mail and a couple of RSS feeds, Opera just runs happily for 2-3 weeks
>> between restarts. But Firefox dies after a couple of days (gmail seems
>> to
>> become unresponsive, whereas on O8 beta Gmail just works and works.
>>
>
> hmmmmm, that's strange.
>
>
>> The only thing I can think of is that there's some page which you always
>> have loaded with a leaky flash movie or java applet.
>> Or given that you don't use mail, what is your default panel? (I always
>> have the mail panel open, but its possible that one of the other panels
>> leaks)
>>
>
> I don't even have to have a web page open. I usually have the mail panel
> open (for the newsfeeds), but I just tried it with the bookmark panel
> and it
> still happens. I noticed it hits the CPU every 60 seconds, does yours
> do
> that too? Might I have some log going? I'm limited to about 2 or 3
> hours
> and then the memory messages start ... "windows is increasing your page
> file....."
>
I'd have to disable seti@home to track CPU use accurately (seti usually
gets 97% and the stupid windows still image monitoring service hogs 2%
constantly).
What are your rss feeds and what are their refresh times? Mine are CSS Zen
garden - which I've just changed from hourly to daily, as they don't
publish often, and secunia security alerts . (just reset from 2 hours to 3
hours.
You could have a misbehaving feed. I've heard of issues with RSS checking
hitting CPU too hard, but not with memory.
Its unlikely that you have started an M2 log without knowing it, because
that requires editing accounts.ini to set up a log file.
--
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
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| | From: | john | | Subject: | Re: Memory Leak? | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:24:32 GMT |
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| > I'd have to disable seti@home to track CPU use accurately (seti usually
> gets 97% and the stupid windows still image monitoring service hogs 2%
> constantly).
>
yeah, that STIMON bugs me, too. But I thought it was a Canon program; no?
I'm constantly wrestling with the fax thing too.
> What are your rss feeds and what are their refresh times? Mine are CSS Zen
> garden - which I've just changed from hourly to daily, as they don't
> publish often, and secunia security alerts . (just reset from 2 hours to 3
> hours.
> You could have a misbehaving feed. I've heard of issues with RSS checking
> hitting CPU too hard, but not with memory.
>
that's a good suggestion, I just turned them all off instead, they were all
on 1 hour.
(Wired, BBC, etc.)
I'm at 162 megs memory right now, I won't touch the machine.
Opera has a blank window, no panel is up.........
> Its unlikely that you have started an M2 log without knowing it, because
> that requires editing accounts.ini to set up a log file.
>
ah ... thanks. I don't think I did that. Although I did find an article
about speeding up page loading by changing some variable in some long
variable definition list. Like "MaxSessionConnection = 30" or something
along those lines.
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| | From: | john | | Subject: | Re: Memory Leak? | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:26:54 GMT |
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| > I'd have to disable seti@home to track CPU use accurately (seti usually
> gets 97% and the stupid windows still image monitoring service hogs 2%
> constantly).
>
yeah, that STIMON bugs me, too. But I thought it was a Canon program; no?
I'm constantly wrestling with the fax thing too.
> What are your rss feeds and what are their refresh times? Mine are CSS Zen
> garden - which I've just changed from hourly to daily, as they don't
> publish often, and secunia security alerts . (just reset from 2 hours to 3
> hours.
> You could have a misbehaving feed. I've heard of issues with RSS checking
> hitting CPU too hard, but not with memory.
>
that's a good suggestion, I just turned them all off instead, they were all
on 1 hour.
(Wired, BBC, etc.)
I'm at 162 megs memory right now, I won't touch the machine.
Opera has a blank window, no panel is up.........
> Its unlikely that you have started an M2 log without knowing it, because
> that requires editing accounts.ini to set up a log file.
>
ah ... thanks. I don't think I did that. Although I did find an article
about speeding up page loading by changing some variable in some long
variable definition list. Like "MaxSessionConnection = 30" or something
along those lines.
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| | From: | john | | Subject: | Re: Memory Leak? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:19:19 GMT |
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| > > You could have a misbehaving feed. I've heard of issues with RSS
checking
> > hitting CPU too hard, but not with memory.
> >
>
> that's a good suggestion, I just turned them all off instead, they were
all
> on 1 hour.
> (Wired, BBC, etc.)
>
> I'm at 162 megs memory right now, I won't touch the machine.
> Opera has a blank window, no panel is up.........
>
>
yeah, that worked. I unchecked all the Newsfeeds, and memory stayed at 165
for several hours. Then I turned them all back on and memory started
growing again. Thanks for the suggestions, Richard. Now I can use Opera
for days at a time, instead of a few hours. As I get time, I'll see if I
can determine if it's just one feed, or several, causing it.
John
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