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Abraham Baker z1693060 at students.niu.edu
Tue Mar 1 03:52:59 CET 2016


Sometimes if I use both firefox and qutebrowser at the same time (so I can
be logged into two gmail accounts at once for example), the RAM usage gets
high enough that swap starts being used (even though I have 8GB of ram).
This only happens if I have a lot of tabs open (especially if they're
media-rich sites like bandcamp), and I don't know which is necessarily to
blame.

I have also had some times where I suspended my computer every night for a
week, so I had >7 days of "uptime", and I ended up needing to restart
qutebrowser as the ram usage increased over time.

Next time I notice this I'll try to notice what's open and which browser is
using more memory.

Abe

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> * Ibon Santisteban <OBIBON at gmx.com> [2016-02-29 22:18:30 +0100]:
> > First of all, I just discovered qutebrowser, and congratulations
> > (and thanks) for such a good piece of software.
>
> You're welcome!
>
> > I'm not really sure this is an issue, but I thought I rather say
> > something than not: I have the feeling that for a minimalistic
> > browser, it uses too much RAM. I just compared to other browsers and
> > this is what I got, having the same amount of tabs (five) open with
> > the exact same websites:
> >
> > midori: 154.8 MiB
> > otter browser: 286.6 MiB
> > qupzilla: 198.0 MiB
> > luakit: 375.7 MiB (even though it started at around 278, it increases as
> time goes by for some reason)
> > QUTEBROWSER: 587.9 MiB
>
> Hmm, interesting qutebrowser would use this much more RAM compared to
> Otter and QupZilla. What pages did you have open, and how precisely
> did you measure?
>
> (also note you're not subscribed to the list - I approved your posting
> by hand)
>
> Florian
>
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