Vivaldi has eaten out all my memory

MVV_

Vivaldi slows my PC down more and more often, I have 4 GB RAM and it eats all of it, and often it also eats all my 4-core CPU because of many processes, but sometimes even my mouse pointer hangs due to slowdowns.

But today Vivaldi brought the best slowdown ever! I've downloaded a large file so I didn't want to kill the process so it eat my memory for some time, also I've noticed how many subprocesses it created... When I could finally open my task manager (it took some minutes to get it), it had 164 subprocesses, most of them had "--type=utility --utility-sub-type=chrome.mojom.UtilReadIcon" in command line. I'm 100% sure that correctly working browser shouldn't ever create 164 subprocesses.

Finally Windows killed the process because all available 10 GB of memory was over (RAM + swap), and I had to re-download the file anyway.

I've uploaded that crazy process list:
https://gofile.io/d/eb2RmW

I hate modern WEB but we have to live with it somehow, and I believe browsers should help us.

Hadden89

@Gwen-Dragon 7 x32, VB-73108, VB-71894 and probably some others I don't know.

@MVV_ Workaround (can't test this being on 10 x64):

you might be able to work around the issue by keeping the Download Panel closed until the download is finished. To make this more convenient you can go to Settings > Downloads and disable 'Open Download Panel Automatically'

Zalex108

@MVV_

Hi,

Have you tested on a Clean Profile?
New Vivaldi's Profile:

" Right side" |

Rename it as Tests or something related, and use it as a Clean Profile, to test without custom configurations that can alter the original operation.

Try those downloads again and browse for a while.

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MVV_

Thank for your replies.

I faced such serious problem for the first time, perhaps because I don't download large files via the browser usually. I'll try to close side panel next time (it was really opened yesterday). I use Windows 7 x64.

It is pretty hard to test it with a clean profile because I don't face it every day.

It's a pity that there is no public bugtracker though.

Hadden89

@MVV_ said in Vivaldi has eaten out all my memory:

7 x64.

So it must be another issue. Or happens both on "most" Windows 7 x32 and "some" x64. No clue
By the way, is a quite reported bug. Some reported this old build worked (you may test as standalone to see if do that).

MVV_

Yesterday it almost frozen my PC with fresh Win7x64 installation again, with just downloaded and installed Vivaldi. I thought for some time that it was some OS freeze but when I've opened a task manager, I've understood that it was just a stupid thousand of child Vivaldi processes... And the problem is that standard task manager is unable to kill a bunch of processes at once.

Will this ever be fixed? It is very sad that such an old and known issue is still unfixed.

MVV_

Yes, I remember it, but it is still a shame that I have to hide my side panel just because of such a bug for months.

I really don't believe that it is hard to fix it.