Infinite RAM usage
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Now, after few hours, the snapshot version does the sameβ¦
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You guys should simply download more RAM.
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@luetage omg cewl, what if i want 16 more gigz? should I click 16 times?
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@luetage Damn, I wish I knew that earlier!
But Vivaldi 1.14 consumes infinite amount of RAM. Can I download infinite amount of RAM in a finite time? -
@ian-coog Just select the 16 GB plan!
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This morning I received a new version (1.14.1077.45) via the updater. Unfortunately it doesn't solve the problem. Vivaldi still eats up all available RAM. At least form time to time.
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I left my memory monitor on this morning and when Vivaldi started aggressively taking RAM I started the
strace
program with the ID of the Vivaldi process that was taking the RAM. When I startedstrace
the process was already 6.5 GB and I let it run until it maxed out at about 13.5 GB. With my system running slowly, I exited Vivaldi without killing it using Ctrl+Q, it took a couple of minutes for all the processes to end, but it did exit cleanly (I thought that might help with thestrace
data).strace
captures all the system calls and signals of a process into a text file. It was running for about 15 minutes. Compressed the file is only 22 MB but uncompressed a whopping 1.6 GB, obviously there is a huge amount of repeated text in the file.I have no idea whether this will be helpful in debugging the memory problem. But if there is another program you wish me to use to monitor the process then let me know. If there was a publicly available bug tracker I could upload the file, place a comment, and know that the right devs would see the data - I don't even know if the devs are monitoring this thread, or even if the bug is being worked on as a matter of priority, I hope so.
Being a
strace
newbie I used a basic command (12578
being the Vivaldi process taking the RAM):sudo strace -o vivaldi_ram_problem_strace -p 12578
Here is the link to the data file: vivaldi_ram_problem_strace.zip
OS: GNU/Linux x86_64 Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Cinnamon 64-bit 2.2.16 [Based On: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS, Trusty Tahr]
Vivaldi 1.14 consumes infinite amount of RAM. Can I download infinite amount of RAM in a finite time?
Only if
P = NP
. Of course if you can prove that you can claim the Millennium Prize of USD $1 million and that'll buy a serious amount of RAM. -
@jkierzkowski Hm, opening a new window is known to trigger the bug, especially when done with Ctrl+N (which can be reliably reproduced by now, so fixes are on the way) - but opening a tab? ...
... that should have hit me multiple times by now because I am a convicted tab hoarder with varying amounts of tabs open in a daily session.
Multiple monitors are part of the culprit too, but not necessarily needed, it only makes it appear faster.
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I still have no reliable way to reproduce the issue.
It seems to me that opening a tab with the Google Calendar tends to trigger the issue more often than "average". YouTube or Google search on the other hand don't seem to be "higher than average" triggers. Facebook maybe, but it's hard to make good statistics on this.
Still opening the Google calendar doesn't always trigger the issue and it also happens in circumstances where no Google calendar is open.
Another "higher than average" trigger is reopening Vivaldi right after having it killed when the bug occurred. So when I have to kill the Vivaldi task because it's memory leaking and restart it soon after the chance is quite high that it will start memory leaking again directly/soon after.
I really hope that this will get fixed soon since I don't feel like abandoning Vivaldi. After all I am/was a delighted Opera user since about 18 years.
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@quhno said in Infinite RAM usage:
Hm, opening a new window is known to trigger the bug, especially when done with Ctrl+N (which can be reliably reproduced by now, so fixes are on the way) - but opening a tab? ...
Opening a new tab definitely triggers it for me sometimes, but I too have seen little consistency and have no way to reliably reproduce the bug. Restarting Vivaldi soon after shutting it down (and waiting for all its processes to end) sometimes triggers it but more often not.
I really hope the dev team get this fixed soon and perhaps introduce stricter quality control for new releases. This kind of major flaw should be happening in Beta only IMO.
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@steffie This time i shall make a comment; today V-SS really does seem to be being a bit RAM-greedy, compared to my previous posted pic above.
Per my Conky "Top 10":
Per V's Task Manager [btw, is it possible to run this in a Web Panel?]:
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@gwen-dragon I aslo experience similar issues in Mint 18.2 (64 bit) but, usually, it seems related to some interactive tabs like WhatsAppWeb, or some heavy webpages like videostreaming as you mentioned.
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IGNORE THIS POST - I had not realized that Vivaldi snapshots are installed in a different location and need to be started by calling
vivaldi-snapshot
. So, without realizing it, I was still usingvivaldi-stable_1.14.1077.41
and notvivaldi-snapshot_1.15.1099.3
.Snapshot 1.15.1099.3 which is a "fix for excessive CPU and memory usage after opening additional windows" does not fix my memory problem. I installed it two hours ago and have already had to restart Vivaldi twice after the aggressive RAM grab took its RAM consumption up to 12+ GB. I did not open any new windows, but two windows were automatically opened at startup as per my startup with last session settings.
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After a day and a half of using
1.14.1077.50
, I have had no re-occurrence of the RAM problem. Looks like the devs have fixed the nasty bug. Many thanks to them. -
@gwen-dragon Yes, you say right. I'm already on 1.13.1008.44 version because I usually wait for repo updates notice, but for some reason I got not yet any advice. The repo's signatures seems ok and I don't have any warning or eror message from that. It's working the Vivaldi updates through the Update Manager or shuold I manually go?
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@gwen-dragon thanks for reply. Indeed this is really weird. I mean, all others distro and software unpdates works fine. Only Vivaldi repo's seems don't fetch.
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@gwen-dragon The Vivaldi repo's updates is quite ticked. Anyway, as I'm noob with Linux I post some screenshot below, if you wanna take a look, maybe I miss something.
Thanks in advance for helpingLinux Mint 18.2 (Cinnamon - 64bit)
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@marko-indaco said in Infinite RAM usage:
I post some screenshot below, if you wanna take a look, maybe I miss something.
To post screen shots in English, just temporarily change the UI language in Settings, Startup to English, then restart Vivaldi. Repeat to return back to Italian.
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@gwen-dragon I don't planned to upgrade cause I don't want Sylvia, at least not for the moment. Maybe could be that the reason?
PS
Later i will try with Synaptic...@Pesala I know. My Vivaldi is already in english, but system not, and i don't want to swap cause I'm afraid that can wreck something in Nemo.
Anyway I would post in my language because with the help of the screenshots i thought @Gwen-Dragon understand my setting (that's my fault, sorry...)Edit:
I take a look right now within Synaptic and I can see the availability of Vivaldi (from the actual 1.13.1008.44-1 to 1.14.1077.50-1) but when I try to update an error occours about broken dependencies. I take a close look and this is how it show in Synaptic broken dependencies section:Edit 2:
I uninstall old version and install 1.14.1077.50 The repo was added as:deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
Let's see with next stable releases if Update Manager notice me.
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I swapped to Vivaldi recently and today I started to experience this on fedora 25.
I have quite a lot of tabs opened, but all hibernated. When I open a new tab it consumes all my remaining ram ~5GB within a minute. If I am not quick enough to kill it it freezes my system and I have to reset.
CTRL+T and clicking new tab both cause the issue. However, opening a bookmark or link in a new tab does not... There must be something up with the start page?
I had 6 windows opened (all hibernated tabs). I closed 5 and then opened a new tab without issues. I then opened a few windows with a single tab and experienced the same problem again. Could it be something to do with a high number of tabs + Windows?