Vivaldi eating up memory and heating up computer.
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Hey y'all. I have a 2019 Macbook Pro 16" that is specced to hell and back and yet vivaldi is killing me. When I open the task manager from the tools panel, It shows that GPU process is constantly over 800 MB and all sorts of other things. Is this normal? In Activity monitor Vivaldi Helper Renderer is always on top with numbers like 30. Especially when watching video. Please help?
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Use Animations (under Window Appearance) off might help a very tiny bit.
What OS version are you on?
Any example sites you have open? (some can be bad with their site coding) -
@Chas4 Hi, I'm on macos catalina 10.15.5. I'll try the animation thing. It's sortof a constant thing but usually I notice it with YouTube (I use it the most)
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The memory usage you are seeing is normal on any chromium based browser. You can disable "hardware acceleration" to reduce that memory usage if you want.
The real issue is CPU usage, I have been seeing very high CPU usage from Vivaldi on Mac since the last update. Specifically with video sites like Youtube. Fans spin up and the video tends to play choppy.
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@Mcmeman That's what I've been seeing as well. What's strange is my fans don't spin up, I had to download a fan controller so that my legs would stop being burned
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Same problem here, vivaldi uses a lot of CPU and macbook runs hotter than other browsers. No extensions, animations off.
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FYI, Mac news sites are reporting that Google is working on more changes to make the underlying Chromium code more power-efficient on macOS. I don't know whether this will also include improvements to how GPU resources are used on MacBook Pros with multiple GPUs.
Vivaldi is based on the Chromium "web engine" and uses that underlying code render web pages and its own UI so, hopefully, Vivaldi will also benefit from those upcoming optimizations as well.
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@xyzzy Thanks for that news! That's great to hear
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September 2021 - still the same issue - is there any more recent advice please? 16" MBP.
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So, any updates on this?
I have never seen chrome use 2 GB RAM for just 40 tabs out of which 15 are "suspended" by "The great suspender" extension.
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@xyzzy Any updates on this????
I had vivaldi open for about 4-5 days and when I looked at the RAM usage, it showed 10GB which is huge. Eventually had to close vivaldi.I can't use vivaldi if I have to close my browser every 3-4 days. 4.2 is getting released but still no mention of this issue. Chrome is so stable and well thought out in these things
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@risingstark said
I can't use vivaldi if I have to close my browser every 3-4 days.
I was wondering why that is. This is not a rhetorical question. I'm just honestly wondering, because I quit Vivaldi at the end of each day. When I launch it next day, the state of the previous day is restored.
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Vivaldi 4.2 is out
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I have this issue with Vivaldi on my MacBook, Chrome is fine so it can't be the Blink engine that's producing the CPU spiking and heating.
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@risingstark said in Vivaldi eating up memory and heating up computer.:
@xyzzy Any updates on this????
I do not have any specific updates. Users have reported bugs pertaining to memory leaks, with good, reliable steps-to-reproduce, and they get fixed by the Vivaldi team.
I am currently using Windows as my primary system, so I am not actively testing on macOS at the moment, but none of the other active internal Mac testers have been raising any alarms about extreme memory usage... at least not that I am aware of. However, internal testers also update to new builds every day or so and relaunch Vivaldi on a regular basis, so we don't tend to actively run Vivaldi for days at a time without restarting.
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FYI, there is a bug, VB-48892 (When browser is running for a long time, opening of new tab becomes slow), that is currently still open. It's not specific to a platform so I will add a link to this thread. Hopefully, that will get some of the devs to revisit this issue.
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@davaldi Same here - monitoring the CPU temps and RAM - it spikes up the CPU frequency near full max loading. Temps shoot up. Even disabling all tabs and plug-ins the condition persists. I'm running OSX 10.15.3 on a 2014.5 MBP. Its' always been an issue no matter of what I do.
I've tried disabling and enabling the GPU hardware throttling to trying flag settings to no avail. I can't watch YouTube videos - it will run too hot for my liking and the fans come on high.
I've even reset Mac's power management system to no avail.
I also redid the CPU and overhauled the thermal paste down to the CCA level.
Safari runs fine- no overheating issues on You Tube videos.
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@chrismckenna That's not really a fair comparison. Safari is a native macOS application that was purpose-built to run on a Mac, and YouTube also tries to provide it with videos that can be decoded in hardware.
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Neither Safari or Firefox makes my M1 MacBook Air run hot. Only Vivaldi.
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Safari still has the WebKit rendering engine AFAIK. Other WebKit based browsers don't heat up my Mac. Even Chrome's Blink engine doesn't. I believe Blink was a fork of WebKit. This is definitely a Vivaldi problem.