Enormous Crashpad Handlers present as processes, consuming over 5 GB of RAM

[floatee]

Hello people. I have about 3 workspaces (only one open at a time) and each has about 15 tabs on average. As you can see below, there are a lot of crashpad handler programs consuming a lot of memory, along with the normal vivaldi tabs. What is this issue? This is making vivaldi consume over 8 GB of my RAM.

CrashPad Handler Programs

Vivaldi Normal Tab Programs

If I shut down the browser, the crashpad handlers still exist in the RAM, and I have to manually delete them. They consume about 5 GB in total itself. But if I restart now, the RAM usage in total is reduced to 3 GB. What is going on here?

[DoctorG]

@floatee For Chromium core related browsers each tabs and extensions consumes resources.

[Pathduck]

@floatee They are not crashpad-handlers, they are type=renderer. Renderer processes handle rendering of web pages, i.e. tabs.

The crashpad-handler PID is 73223.
Each tab/extensions and system process is its own PID.

Use the Vivaldi Task Tanager (Shift+ESC) to find what process(es) are using memory. Most likely you just have a lot of tabs open. Each tab consumes RAM.