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Not sure if any of you use "okcupid.com", but a single tab of that site will consume 4-5GB of RAM in a matter of an hour. Eventually grinding the entire browser
by overcast 10y ago
Not sure if any of you use "okcupid.com", but a single tab of that site will consume 4-5GB of RAM in a matter of an hour. Eventually grinding the entire browser to a halt, and nearly killing the OS in the process. There is a SERIOUS memory issue on that site, and it's always been that way for me. Safari, Chrome, Firefox on a Mac.
- hermitdev 10y agoI don't use okcupid.com, but gmail, for me, leaks ~4KB per second, even under Chrome 57. Years ago I reported the issue, but it remains unresolved, and I've never received a response. It's not clear to me if it's a gmail issue or a Chrome issue. Either way, leaking 4KB per second is not a good thing. I've only had gmail open for about 2 hours, and it's already using about 325MB of RAM - and there's only 5 messages in my inbox.
- teknologist 10y agoThey were always boasting about building okcupid in C++. Guess they needed garbage collection after all.
- umanwizard 10y agoI doubt the client-side web pages are written in C++ -- they were probably talking about the server, unless you have a source to the contrary.
- yladiz 10y agoMaybe Safari handles it differently, but I've left Okcupid on accidentally for hours at a time in the background and I've never noticed anything specifically memory hungry with it.
- overcast 10y agoSafari seems to be the worst affected for me. I thought maybe it was adblockers or something, disabled all plugins, and still persists.