Please use latest version (RC just came out) and provide steps to reproduce from a clean Orion profile.
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Check Memory usage
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Just happened to me as we speak. Will try to gather more info about this, and try to find a pattern to replicate it.
Will post here if I find a clear evidence of how this happens.
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What happened? How did it happen? What are the steps to replicate the issue.
High RAM usage on macos Sonoma 14.0 with just one open tab and window and with low power mode enabled.
To reproduce:
- open and and pin some tabs
- orion automatically suspends all tabs
- open one random tab in a saved window
- check for ram usage
What did you expect to happen? Describe the desired functionality.
Lower resource usage with tabs suspended in low power mode.
What version of Orion are you running?
0.99.125.5-rc
The below are the same tabs for chrome
The difference is very big. I know that google has a very big team to optimise chrome for mac but it would really be good if you guys are able to bring the Orion ram usage from 1gb to 500mb
I can confirm that the latest RC has significant memory usage compared to the 125.4-rc. I will attempt to do a side-by-side comparison of the current RC and the current 125-beta to show the difference in memory usage
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Ok, comparison with Orion RC 125.5 and Orion beta on my primary profiles. The only extension is Bitwarden.
Two tabs, one is the same YouTube video and the other is app.element.io
RC here reports in this sampling 2.5 GB of combined usage
Beta here reports just over 1 GB.
Any processes below those were taking minimal RAM.
I can try something similar with clean profiles that have no extensions but this is some representation of my normal usage.
I will add that since the 125.5 update, I did notice memory pressure in Activity Monitor showing up as yellow sometimes with Orion RC running. That's not a normal behaviour for Orion.
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.
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.
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This actually appears to be fixed or at least improved in 0.99.125.6-rc.
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.
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.