Sometimes if I use both firefox and qutebrowser at the same time (so I can be logged into two gmail accounts at once for example), the RAM usage gets high enough that swap starts being used (even though I have 8GB of ram). This only happens if I have a lot of tabs open (especially if they're media-rich sites like bandcamp), and I don't know which is necessarily to blame.
I have also had some times where I suspended my computer every night for a week, so I had >7 days of "uptime", and I ended up needing to restart qutebrowser as the ram usage increased over time. Next time I notice this I'll try to notice what's open and which browser is using more memory. Abe On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Florian Bruhin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > * Ibon Santisteban <[email protected]> [2016-02-29 22:18:30 +0100]: > > First of all, I just discovered qutebrowser, and congratulations > > (and thanks) for such a good piece of software. > > You're welcome! > > > I'm not really sure this is an issue, but I thought I rather say > > something than not: I have the feeling that for a minimalistic > > browser, it uses too much RAM. I just compared to other browsers and > > this is what I got, having the same amount of tabs (five) open with > > the exact same websites: > > > > midori: 154.8 MiB > > otter browser: 286.6 MiB > > qupzilla: 198.0 MiB > > luakit: 375.7 MiB (even though it started at around 278, it increases as > time goes by for some reason) > > QUTEBROWSER: 587.9 MiB > > Hmm, interesting qutebrowser would use this much more RAM compared to > Otter and QupZilla. What pages did you have open, and how precisely > did you measure? > > (also note you're not subscribed to the list - I approved your posting > by hand) > > Florian > > -- > http://www.the-compiler.org | [email protected] (Mail/XMPP) > GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc > I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/ >
