Check Memory usage

Vlad

Dustin Can you just confirm what steps are.

open orion
open this url
open that url
notice memory usage?

Tinholoco

Dustin

Yeah.

1) I opened Orion and Orion RC
2) Opened a video on YouTube
3) Opened app.element.io which took me to my default room
4) Waited 5-10 minutes for the RAM usage to balloon

That is just a regular usage scenario where I noticed the increased RAM usage. If you are unable to reproduce, I can attempt to find some resource-hungry pages that may make it easier to track down.

Dustin

Further update after a period of time using Orion RC

Two tabs open, the same YouTube and app.element.io as previous test. Additionally, about:, ... seems to be taking a lot of RAM although I don't have any empty tabs or anything of that sort open. Just the two tabs listed.

Dustin

This actually appears to be fixed or at least improved in 0.99.125.6-rc.

Vlad

Dustin Ok if there is a difference please provide exact steps. Is it youtube or app.element.io causing it? Just one tab should be enough to reproduce the issue.

Dustin

Vlad

Ok so I can observe that the about:, ... process still appears to hog memory. What I have done to test this is simply just to open a fresh instance of Orion RC and open YouTube in a single tab to the TWiT Livestream as it's always running. After a period of time, you will start to see memory usage grow and this process starts to report high RAM usage.

However, since the 125.6-rc build, I have been unable to get it to hit Memory Pressure in the yellow, which is an improvement.

This is my main profile with only Bitwarden as an extension. I can reproduce this with a clean testing profile.

Dustin

Opened a clean testing profile with the aforementioned TWiT livestream

Minute 0:

Minute 15:

You can see the memory usage increase by 500 MB over that 15 minute period. It will continue to increase.

No other apps open, no other tabs open.

Vlad

Dustin

You can see the memory usage increase by 500 MB over that 15 minute period. It will continue to increase.

This is not apparent in your screenshot? The total memory of Orion processes went up maybe 150MB? To make sure this is indeed abnormal, please compare with Safari in same circumstances.

Dustin

Vlad I will run the exact same test with Safari and report back. 🙂 The 500 MB increase I pulled from the 'Memory Used' reading in the bottom right corner there. I should have clarified.

Vlad

Dustin That is total macos memory usage, orion processes can be added together.

Dustin

Safari with the same steps. Open a fresh instance, open the previously mentioned YouTube stream and wait 15 minutes.

Minute 0:

Minute 15:

I hope that's at least somewhat helpful. Again, I will say that 125.6-rc seems to have made a difference with the behaviour I noticed with .5-rc. This latest release is running very well.

Vlad

Dustin I interpret your latest set of screenshots that Orion and Safari behavior is roughly the same? (If anything it appears that Orion uses less RAM than Safari?)

Dustin

Yes, it would appear so. Although, there is that strange about:, ... process that appears and takes up a lot of RAM over a period of time.

It's not something I can easily recreate as I have no idea what it is or where it comes from. It happens even with just one tab open as you can see.

Vlad

Dustin Thanks for doing the exercise with me. As almost every time before we land on the same conclusion that there is nothing wrong and that Orion is more memory efficient than Safari.

I suggest enabling this option in activity monitor so that processes are grouped together.

Dustin

When I group the processes together I add the process name to Activity Monitor so that about:, ... process is definitely Orion but I will enable that setting for future reference.

alpylmz

Hi,

I am experiencing very high RAM usage with Orion v0.99.127.3-beta, especially with Gmail and Youtube.

This image is the RAM usage with two Gmail tabs, and one Youtube tab playing a 30 minute video in Orion, with a clean test profile.

This image is the RAM usage with the same tabs opened in Safari.

I am aware that even in Safari the RAM usage is pretty high, and therefore this is not a bug report. But I find one Gmail tab consuming 800MB RAM ridiculous, and seeking suggestions on reducing it.

v0.99.127.3-beta - macOS 14.0

Sonoma (14)

sunZHU

Same issue with multiple sites. Especially, youtube/twitch/google drive/reddit/twitter/etc. Happens on a clean profile just by having the tabs open. Some tabs that I've closed still appear in activity monitor.

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