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I've had a lot of weird memory leaks looking at this site. To be honest, I don't really know if it's this site in specific, or a plug-in that this site asks for, or just google chrome being dumb and stupid. Personally, I blame the latter one-- google chrome being dumba ndstupid.

But I thought I'd post it anyway, because it seems to be a bigger issue for dakkadakka than for other sites I visit such as roosterteeth, youtube, thatguywiththeglasses, etc.

Lately it's also becoming unresponsive at the slightest hint of action from me. Chrome identified this site specifically in this task manager, often having it taking up massive amounts of CPU power when it isn't even in the forefront:



I'm checking google chrome's groups and stuff as well for a fix on this. But I think I might just switch back to Opera.

I don't see the same issue and I use Chrome exclusively. I don't use a lot of plugins though. Have you tried disabling whatever plugins you use and see if that makes a difference?

I'll try. How do I disable them?

Click the Tool icon in the upper right . Go to Tools-> Extensions, you should be able to see any extensions you have and disable them.

Another thought; I don't see ads as a DCM. Possibly the leak is coming through one of the ads?

I'd also file an issue with Google, as browsers probably shouldn't leak memory regardless of the html content.

Feth me, this is bad.



According to the extensions page I have no extensions. I disabled all plug-ins on the about:plugins page, though.

No help. Chrome continues to suck.

I have ads enabled and don't seem to come across that issue. Even have ad blocker disabled here.

Shame it seems to have come back for you.

Yeah, a complete uninstall and reinstall didn't seem to fix the issue, and it seems to be mostly related to Chrome-- I don't have that problem using Opera.

I'm also curious as to why you believe this is a memory leak.

My chrome is using more memory that what yours seems to be using, at 81M. In today's computing environments, using 80 Megs of memory really isn't a big deal, most machines have at least 256Meg available, and many cap over a gig.

If this was actually a memory "leak", you'd see that number steadily increase. Leaking means that the application is allocating memory and not freeing it. Using a lot of memory is not a leak, it's just a use.

When did the issue start for you? I wonder if too many graphics is overloading your machine?




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Unless, you're actually complaining about CPU usage, which isn't the same as a memory use at all. That'd be the 50 and 78 in your cut & pastes.

That is strange - and completely unrelated to memory use. I've no idea what the site might be doing that would use that much processor on a continual basis. I come back to the possibility that the ads are doing something behind the scenes, because laying out a site like dakka shouldn't be CPU intensive.

Maybe check the link at the bottom left or type in about:memory, both go to the same place where it'll show a more detailed view. Might help find it, though probably not.

One of the things I see when looking around for a solution is the antivirus apparently. Then another is background pages and disabling them.

Okay, it may not be a memory leak, but it IS using an absolutely atrocious amount of CPU power, far more than it has any right to use, using 90% of my CPU power when it's doing such complex tasks as... looking at a single fething blank tab.


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MINECRAFT has less CPU usage than chrome, and Minecraft is a full on game, and not merely a ing browser

Disabled all plug-ins, no help. Have no extensions to disable. I checked background programs in task manager, nothing is hogging anywhere NEAR as much CPU usage as Chrome is, and that's just it opening a new blank tab (and taking several minutes to do so). I closed Chrome down and ran a virus scan with AVG and came up empty. Updated AVG, ran another scan, came up empty. Went to system -> disk cleanup, no help. Disabled AVG, no help-- Chrome still uses up abnormal amounts of CPU power, and is unresponsive especially on DakkaDakka.

I posted a bug report on google chrome's groups.google.com page, but meh? It still seems to be that this particular website takes a lot more CPU power than other sites for no apparent reason.... not that anything about Chrome is making sense these days.

I suppose I'll wait and see if the good people at Chromium will respond with something useful, or if they're just gonna be neckbeards again...

I use Chrome on a netbook, and don't have any problems with it... but I am not computer savvy enough to suggest possible reasons why yours would be acting up.

Another idea, if you're feeling experimental, is that chrome gives you access to a developer control panel.

Clicking the menu butto (wrench or list) in the upper right, and go to tools->developer tools and you'll get a window that pops up.

it breaks the html down into different elements, and you can expand each element, and also remove them. As you click on the various nodes, it will highlight them in the browser window.

If you do this with the problem site running, try removing elements and seeing what element is causing the CPU usage. You can always refresh the page and get them back again if you remove too much, or if you want to narrow it down even further once you find a higher-level node that is the culprit.


It may not solve your problem in the long term, but identifying exactly what your issue is, and where it comes from, will make it much easier for Lego to fix it, if it is a dakka issue, or for us to suggest a remedy, if it's something on your system.

The Chrome task manager that you've posted a screenshot of always reports each tab as a separate instance; it's not specifically picking on Dakka.

The Memory column is absolutely fine and the CPU column will spike to high levels as you're loading the pages; but one of the versions of Chrome from earlier this year did have memory issues where it couldn't release the CPU processes. Are you on the latest version of Chrome?

Switch to Internet Explorer.

 MetalOxide wrote:
Switch to Internet Explorer.

You're kidding right?

 Alfndrate wrote:

 MetalOxide wrote:
Switch to Internet Explorer.

You're kidding right?

Nope, Chrome started playing up for me so I'm using the latest Internet Explorer which works like a charm.

...

I've said it before so I'll say it again. You can find a tutorial and make your own browser and it'll still likely be more secure than IE.

Anyway ignoring that.

It appears to have been patched away, and was a bug in google Chrome.

A bug in google chrome that specifically affected dakkadakka.com? How is that even possible?

It didn't specifically effect dakkadakka.

It effected dakkadakka more than most other sites, but every other site I visited was effected to some extent.

Glad to hear an update fixed the issue