Lowering CPU and memory usage
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Recently been feeling like my laptop is a bit slower, so been checking the memory usage of everything and came across this. Don't know much about average usage but this seems a bit high. Just to be clear, the CPU usage is 14% and the memory usage is 2.313mb. This with some idle text websites open and one live stream. Is this something normal or are there any tips for lowering it? Thanks.
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@jtwillert
Hi, streaming cost CPU, 15% seems OK to me.
Check the same stream in other Chromium browser, Edge, Opera.
Your image shows 35 Vivaldi processes, open tabs, extensions, web panels, all start a new process.
Open the internal Vivaldi task manager with Shift+Tab, or from the Tools menu, which tab/extension cause how much memory usage.
You can hibernate background tabs with the tab context menu. Right click on a tab to open it.Cheers, mib
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@jtwillert Hi, seems pretty normal - depending on what sites you have open, and possibly if you have the Mail/Feed client enabled.
Click the > to view the list of child processes. Make sure you have the PID column showing. Then you can compare the PIDs to the PIDs used in Vivaldi's internal task manager (Shift+ESC) - this way you can tell what specific tab/process is causing the CPU/RAM usage.
Some users have reported constant CPU usage with the Mail/Feed client. I don't use it.
One thing I notice is this
This means the Vivaldi process is running as a background "ECO" process and possibly being less performant.See:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/90809/one-word-turn-off-efficiency-mode
Obviously on a laptop turning off "ECO" mode will cause more battery drain, kind of the whole point of setting "idle" processes in ECO mode.Laptops are special playthings, not real PCs so I have no idea how to turn that ECO crap off - I use a Real Computer
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@mib2berlin @Pathduck Thanks for the tips, seems to help quite a bit so far! And yes haha, one day I'll have to invest in a real computer
