[dba-Tech] Opera memory usage

Hi John

It may be so that if another app requests more ram, Opera frees some.
If not, put the issue forward to Opera support.

/gustav


> Date: 2004-07-26 22:03

> LOL.  Yea, I was afraid I was going to get that.  

> In fact I have downloaded and installed Firefox as well, and have used it a
> little.  It appears to do the same thing.  As I browse, open new windows
> (tabs), close windows / tabs etc, the memory usage climbs and climbs.  It
> doesn't drop back until I close, then re-open.

> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Haslett, Andrew
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 1:23 AM
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> Use firefox  ;= 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] 
> Sent: Monday, 26 July 2004 1:28 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Opera memory usage

> I am using Opera a lot recently (and generally love it) but it seems to
> consume memory at a prodigious rate.  After a few hours of comparison
> shopping for various items, plus a bit of research it is up to 125 mb of
> memory (according to Task Manager).  Granted, closing Opera does give the
> memory back to the system, but that still seems excessive.  If I then simply
> re-open Opera, it loads the previous state (tabs open, pages loaded) but the
> memory used drops to a much more reasonable 28mb.

> I have to assume that it is caching the world.  Is there any way to set a
> limit to the size of that cache so the memory consumption doesn't get so
> humongous?

> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com