High memory usage
Vlad Sorry, Vlad. Totally understand your need for reproducible steps and that is not providing them can be frustrating. If I could, I would. But to me the problem only happens every few days and as I’m using Orion as my primary browser, it’s hard to isolate. I was hoping the Console dump might help.
Glad to see that Justin found one way to reproduce a memory leak.
If I find some spare time, I’ll see if I can reproduce that too.
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Don't know how I messed it up, but the title should be 41 GB, not 45. Sorry!
Steps to reproduce:
I had only three tabs open at the time: Prime Video, Terraria Wiki Page, and Twitter
Expected behavior:
I closed it out, but I find that it still eats RAM. I can't use it anymore because I can't have my system telling me it's run out of memory the way that it did, especially when it should have had plenty of it to use left (see attached image)
Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Orion, macOS Monterey, M1 14-inch MacBook Pro 16GB
Image/Video:
that is definitely a memory leak
Does this consistently happen (like once every few minutes, hours, days), or this the only time it happened (or a few other times too)?
BTW, therehave been a lot of other apps that have similar memory leaks. it could actually be a macOS bug (memory leaks were super common, relatively, in some version of Monterey)
Also, I suggest updating ur mac to the latest OS version.
Since I am using my laptop at the moment as a replacement for a desktop, I leave it on day and night. this also means my orion is left running day and night. this mornign ( not sure after how long conttant running) I came back to the machine telling me it was out of working memory, and my OS showed me Orion was using 36GB of memory.
so steps to reproduce: Mac OS-X 13.1. start Orion, keep browsing, leave Orion open permanently for a couple of dys while using it.
the The Orion Web Content process will grow, but when closing tabs, not clear the used memory . only when closing Orion completely teh memory is cleared.
ericdenekamp One wuold expect that such drastic memory consumption would be easy to reproduce. Can you provide us with exact steps to reproduce it from a clean Orion profile?
run Orion on Mac OS-X 13.1. leave it running for days (do not shut down your machine, do not quit Orion. and go visit websites. Websites with much cahnging content like Facebook or 9gag will speed up teh process. multiple websites with static content haev elss impact. visiting news sites helps too.
ericdenekamp You can imagine that we have Orion running for days and I have never experienced this issue. We think it may be caused by extensions (I run no extensions) and this is why we need exact circumstances that lead to the issue. Sadly noone has ever been able to provide us those, which is why this bug is still not resolved.