Steam using a lot of memory from 600mb - 1,5 gb, is that normal thing?

[Manticore]

Usually it only took like 100-200 mb of memory usage, but since days ago Steam seems consuming many memory of my computer, is that because steamwebhelper? That program always split up to two processes and takes up a lot of memory, i haven't disable it yet cause i still don't know will it crash the app or not..

[Xaelath]

Yes it was the cause,
The memory load up the image files and game library (pages ; cover,trading card,achievement stuff etc).

No it was not normal, this is what you would call a bloatware and at the same time might count as memory leak.
Supposedly if the system arent in use the memory would reduce back to normal (below 200k).

[Xaelath]

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I also had this same problem, Steam started using 6gb of my Ram xD

It only happened when you have tons of library and start opening it one by one.
Something else must've caused it because this issue mostly happen when the new interface launched.

[Iceira]

Clear webcache, try cookie after if first dont do it

[Sephiroth]

This wouldn't be a problem if Steam wasn't becoming a glorified Chrome webbrowser with a custom ui on top of it.

[nullable]

İlk olarak Sephiroth tarafından gönderildi:

This wouldn't be a problem if Steam wasn't becoming a glorified Chrome webbrowser with a custom ui on top of it.

Applications using RAM is not a problem. Having uninformed opinions about RAM usage, or just weird biases over how much RAM a program "ought to use" is just a recipe for unhappiness though.

[Junior]

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İlk olarak Sephiroth tarafından gönderildi:

This wouldn't be a problem if Steam wasn't becoming a glorified Chrome webbrowser with a custom ui on top of it.

Applications using RAM is not a problem. Having uninformed opinions about RAM usage, or just weird biases over how much RAM a program "ought to use" is just a recipe for unhappiness though.

If the ram is not used as a cache its a problem, ram that cant be released is stolen ram..... Cached ram is okay and should be used as much as possible causw it can be released if other software e neeeds

[nullable]

RAM the program is using isn't "stolen" RAM. Having opinions about how much RAM a program ought to use, how it should use, doesn't make it "stolen" RAM.

People get all weird about web browsers. I've been listening people cry RAM usage relating to them for twenty years. People having fits when Firebird used 100MB. They'll be having fits about RAM usage for arbitrary programs for the next twenty years.

People don't seem to complain about how much RAM a game uses though... games are allowed to use RAM. "Lesser" programs are not though.

[crunchyfrog]

İlk olarak Sephiroth tarafından gönderildi:

This wouldn't be a problem if Steam wasn't becoming a glorified Chrome webbrowser with a custom ui on top of it.

That's not how things work at all.

Using Chrome does not mean anything like that. Steam remains a very light burden on computers.

Fun fact - RAM is MEANT to be used by ALL programs. I don't know why people are weird about this. Plus if you don't know how their processes work, you CANNOT logically say it's wrong.

[Manticore]

Damn, i woke up and opened Steam and suddenly i have 9 notifications for a thread i made nearly 2 years ago..
I kinda forget, but iirc i did solve the problem by reinstalling Steam..

[Xaelath]

İlk olarak Manticore tarafından gönderildi:

Damn, i woke up and opened Steam and suddenly i have 9 notifications for a thread i made nearly 2 years ago..
I kinda forget, but iirc i did solve the problem by reinstalling Steam..

Just mark the thread answered.

[crunchyfrog]

İlk olarak Manticore tarafından gönderildi:

Damn, i woke up and opened Steam and suddenly i have 9 notifications for a thread i made nearly 2 years ago..
I kinda forget, but iirc i did solve the problem by reinstalling Steam..

Lol, sometimes it goes like this here. People googling a problem chance upon old threads and wake them up again.

:)