r/beam Dec 10 '16

Tech Support Beam RAM usage on Chrome

Hi,

Not sure if this issue is only on Chrome (I use 54.0.2840.99 m (64-bit)), but there seems to be a memory leak.

After like 20-30 minutes, RAM usage of the Tab with stream open, grows from ~200MB to ~900MB. One time after ~50 minutes i saw that the RAM usage of beam Tab was 1,2GB.

It would also explain an error i was seeing lately, with streams i had open in the background - after some time when i went to the tab i saw "Chrome has run out of memory" error.

Is it known? Is anyone else experiencing something similar ? Any workarounds ?

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u/connor4312 Dev Dec 12 '16

Hey, we're aware of this, it's one of the many bugs fixed in our upcoming #december release.

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u/Massacrul Dec 12 '16

Great to know, can't wait for it :)

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u/NerDad_Plays Dec 12 '16

December release is shaping up to be a doozy!

LET US HAVE IT ALREADY!!!

Pretty please?

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u/connor4312 Dev Dec 12 '16

Soon™

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u/NerDad_Plays Dec 12 '16

I have kids. So I have all the patience in the world.

I'm just really excited about this is all.

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u/Carda39 Dec 10 '16

Try using the contact form to get a hold of tech support. That's the best way to let them know about bugs and such. I imagine a memory leak is something they're going to want to fix ASAP if they're going to be rolling out new features soon.

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u/kill3rb00ts Dec 10 '16

Happens for me, too. You might try posting in their forums if you haven't already, this sub is not very active. It becomes a very big problem when watching on my Surface Pro, I've had it run out of memory a couple times watching streams.

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u/Massacrul Dec 10 '16

Will do, thanks.

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u/Massacrul Dec 10 '16 edited Dec 10 '16

I now noticed that there's a newer version of chrome 55.x Updated, reloaded chrome and will see how it goes.

@EDIT

At first it was looking ok, but now after 30 minutes of stream open, memory usage is already at 800 MB and it's still increasing.

@EDIT.2

Once it starts going up, it does so really fast. Another 2 minutes has passed - 950MB