Opera 10.63 & Memory Usage

Firegod · 7 Nov 2010 at 10:16

Hello, does anyone here use Opera?

Noticed the other day it was using well over 200Mb of RAM, is this normal?

If I open Opera, it takes ~60Mb of RAM. Then if I open a Tab, it goes to about 75Mb. If I close the extra Tab down, it remains at 75Mb. :confused:

Should it not return down to the original value?

I have Google on one Tab, and this page on another, and the memory usage is now 80Mb. Now, if I minimise Opera, the memory usuage (according to task manager) drops to 70Mb. Why does it go up when I maximise Opera and drop when minimised?

Any ideas? Is this normal behaviour?

Thanks.

Firegod · 7 Nov 2010 at 10:21

Hmm, think I might have figured this out. Noticed a setting to cache pages in memory for faster viewing, this was set to 'Automatic'. I have limited this to 100Mb. Hopefully Opera won't use so much RAM after changing this setting.

Still interested in knowing why it uses less memory minimised...?

Firegod · 7 Nov 2010 at 13:01

Just never noticed before, to me, I thought that was quite high. Obviously not.

Firegod · 7 Nov 2010 at 15:38

NqR said:
It not just 15mb of ram. The op wonder why opera STILL uses that 15mb since he closed the extra tab which is a valid question i think.

Exactly.

And why when minimised does it reduce, yet the amount of tabs open hasn't changed.

Azuse05, I think you have mis-read my OP. I'm not "concerned", I just want to know if the amount of memory it is using is normal, and, why it doesn't appear to free up the RAM when you close tabs, etc. I have partly reduced this as I did not realise that it cached previous pages for quicker access.

However, 15Mb or 30Mb or whatever... it's still memory being used that I'd prefer the OS to have back instead of being held on to.