Opera 5 memory leak?

[Shudder]

I like opera because it's small and fast.. but only right away.

I was wondering why my system would slow to a crawl at work (NT 4.. slow enough as it is)

With 3 windows open in IE5 I'm using 15M right now. I think maybe 11 at the minimum. Opera starts out with 7 but after I go to each page I can see it loading up things into memory but it never goes down if I close other windows. So, after a while and closing ALL my windows, leaving only opera open itself, it took up 17M.

Do I need to mess with the memory cache settings or is this thing just a black hole in my memory? Thanks

 

[tbumpus]

I use Opera 5 and haven't noticed a similar problem. You may want to try posting this question in the Opera newsgroups. > news.opera.no

 

[Entity]

I have had the same problem (Win2k) and haven't received any responses yet. If you find out, let me know.

thanks,
Rob

 

[Danlz]

Pardon, but what kind of memory: physical, virtual, or(???) and what are you using to monitor?

 

[Moonbender]

Some tests:

Starting Opera and hopping straight into this post, Opera uses ~12 megs, 7.8 physical and 4.3 virtual. Now I opened 14 comic sites (ie. lots of graphics), RAM is at 27 megs (14p/13v). Just closed every window but this one, memory usage is at 19 MB (11p/8v).

Anyway, there might be some memory leak, or just a weird way of memory management, but I haven't had any problems yet. Sometimes a window which I used for browsing lots of comic sites takes a couple of seconds to close, that may be related to the memory use.
Running Win2000 with 96 MB RAM (yes that's not much, I know).

 

[Shudder]

I adjusted the cache settings, so we'll see what's going on with it. It had 10 megs of disk cache, which basically means the way opera works, it will keep all that in memory, I'm guessing. At least that's the way 3 and 4 worked, since they said if you had a large disk cache it would take a lot longer to start up and use more memory.

I turned down the memory cache anyway. I have a fast connection at home and work, so I don't care too much about cacheing items.

Disabling Auto Ram Cache seemed to help, since I just set it to a static amount and it didn't jump around like crazy. After opening 6 windows in 6 different sites and browsing a bit, closing them, etc.. My memory never jumped above 12M and after closing everything it dropped slowly to about 10, which is close to what it was when I started.

So maybe there's no leak, but Opera likes to load up everything in memory to become faster. On a slower PC it looks like disabling auto Ram and lowering mem and disk cache would be good for the system

 

[Sunner]

At work I've disabeled all the caching functions for Opera since the fast connection there makes caching pretty much useless, and Opera hardly ever increases anything in memory size.
I can have it open all day, and when I go home, it still wont use more than like 15 MB.

So I think cache tweaking is your solution.