Major memory leakage in Chrome

Quartz

Hero

• Aug 14, 2014

• #1

I'm seeing major memory leakage in Google Chrome when browsing ENWorld. I opened this tab specifically to post this and the tab is already using 235 MB.

I'm not seeing this on other message boards I use.

 

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Quartz

Hero

• Aug 15, 2014

• #2

FFS! I leave ENworld in the foreground for an hour or so and the RAM usage is up to 2 GB!

 

steeldragons

Steeliest of the dragons

Epic

• Aug 22, 2014

• #3

Is this why getting around on ENworld today has been so crazy slow?!

Everything I click on is taking...well, WAY more time than usual to get the page shown.

 

Morrus

Well, that was fun

Staff member

• Aug 22, 2014

• #4

Memory leakage? I don't really know what that means, sadly, and I wouldn't know what to do about it. Does this happen on other vBulletin sites?

steeldragons said:

Is this why getting around on ENworld today has been so crazy slow?!

Everything I click on is taking...well, WAY more time than usual to get the page shown.

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Nah, that's because we have three times the traffic we had at the beginning of the year. Things have been getting crazy busy round here!

 

Quartz

Hero

• Aug 22, 2014

• #5

Morrus said:

Memory leakage? I don't really know what that means, sadly, and I wouldn't know what to do about it. Does this happen on other vBulletin sites?

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Right now this tab is using 1.3 GB RAM in Chrome on my PC. It starts off much lower. I think it's to do with the ads. I also see the same memory leakage on Pprune and hardforum - all vbbs sites with ads.

 

Quartz

Hero

• Aug 22, 2014

• #6

Right. I've just restarted the tab and RAM usage is down to 145 MB.

 

steeldragons

Steeliest of the dragons

Epic

• Aug 22, 2014

• #7

Morrus said:

Nah, that's because we have three times the traffic we had at the beginning of the year. Things have been getting crazy busy round here!

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Ah. Well cause for celebration then! Congrats. hahaha.

 

Quartz

Hero

• Aug 23, 2014

• #8

And despite having installed Flashblock and Adblock, RAM usage is up to 550 MB.

 

Morrus

Well, that was fun

Staff member

• Aug 23, 2014

• #9

Quartz said:

And despite having installed Flashblock and Adblock, RAM usage is up to 550 MB.

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I believe you! I just literally have no idea what it means or what I could possibly do to rectify it! Especially if it's something you're seeing on other vBulletin sites, too.

 

Quartz

Hero

• Aug 24, 2014

• #10

I've installed the HTTP Switchboard extension and disabled all scripts apart from ENWorld's own, and that's made a huge improvement.