Why so many processes?
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I just upgraded my desktop (Mint 20.1) and it upgraded Vivaldi to 6.1.3035.111. On clicking the panel icon, nothing happened, so I ran ps -ax and saw 18 processes for Vivaldi but still no window. Clicked again on the panel icon and the window appeared (adding another two processes). Working fine, but what are all those processes doing? (I can upload the list).
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@frisket
Hi, every tab, panel, extension is a separate process, all Chromium browser do so.
One tab can crash but the browser is still working.
You can check the internal task manager, open with Shift+Esc.Cheers, mib
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18 seems a lot though, and if it doesn't start something is very wrong.
What you should have (this is on Windows, but I assume Linux is similar process-wise) is:
- Main Browser process
- GPU Process
- Crashpad-handler (hidden from internal task manager)
- Network Service
- Storage Service
- Audio Service
- Spare Renderer
- One Vivaldi App process
- One for each opened tab/webview
- One for each opened web panel
- One for each active extension
So at least 9-10 is to be expected from start without anything added.
The type of process should show with ps when looking at the full command,
--type--extension-processetc. -
@frisket
Please can you add your system specs?
I have 36 processes, I start with 9 tabs, 2 extensions and 3 web panels.
This takes about 1.8 GB Ram on Opensuse Linux.
Have to check if is less on Windows, no idea.Cheers, mib
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@frisket said in Why so many processes?:
I ran ps -ax and saw 18 processes for Vivaldi but still no window
Perhaps that were crashed processes?
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@mib2berlin said in Why so many processes?:
Hi, every tab, panel, extension is a separate process, all Chromium browser do so.
Sure, but this is a new start with no open tabs, after a system upgrade. I'm only running one extension (MarkDown). There really shouldn't be this many processes.
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@DoctorG said in Why so many processes?:
@frisket said in Why so many processes?:
I ran ps -ax and saw 18 processes for Vivaldi but still no window
Perhaps that were crashed processes?
No, it was a clean shutdown before the upgrade and reboot.
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@mib2berlin said in Why so many processes?:
Please can you add your system specs?
I have 36 processes, I start with 9 tabs, 2 extensions and 3 web panels.
This takes about 1.8 GB Ram on Opensuse Linux.
Have to check if is less on Windows, no idea.I have rebooted again and now I only have 10 processes and it starts normally. I have replicated this behaviour on a laptop running the same OS and Vivaldi version, and it too comes back with 10 processes. So this seems normal, just profligate.
Thanks everyone for helping.
