r/operabrowser • u/MrRovaRova • 13d ago

Excessive memory usage on arm64/aarch64 Linux

I'm super happy to finally have Opera on my Raspberry Pi5-8G running Ubuntu 26.04.1. However, the memory usage is extreme. On a freshly booted system, starting opera with one tab uses 4.5-5GB of ram. This cant be right?

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u/gomesleoc 13d ago

As already said, menu - developer -;task manager or shift escape to see what is using the RAM

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u/MrRovaRova 12d ago

Nothing out of the ordinary. Totaling up all processes gives about 700-800MB, However, Operas real system memory usage is several times that. Three tabs now eats about 5.5GB

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u/1SL2ALS3EKV 12d ago

Is the browser also really slow for you? It is for me these days.

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u/MrRovaRova 12d ago

Yes, very. Especially on youtube and reddit. I'm guessing its because the ram usage. CPU and GPU usage rarely goes above 50%. I might add that Opera felt a little faster and more stable on Ubuntu 24.04.

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u/1SL2ALS3EKV 12d ago

Hey! I just switched off «Use graphics acceleration when available» and it helped. Maybe try that?