Client webhelper

[Centurion]

Steam client webhelper using too much ram. I searched web but couldnt find anything to stop it. There are suggestions but nothing changed. Can someone help?

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inb4 "buy more ram"

[Wolfpig]

Close all unnecessary Tabs in your steam client/overlay of the games.

[ReBoot]

Deleting Steam's web cache might help. Aside from that, with Crome being by far the most used browser, it seems like the vast majority of users love wasting RAM.

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ReBoot の投稿を引用：

Deleting Steam's web cache might help. Aside from that, with Crome being by far the most used browser, it seems like the vast majority of users love wasting RAM.

Why does Chrome do that? And which browser doesn't?

[ReBoot]

you from the future の投稿を引用：

ReBoot の投稿を引用：

Deleting Steam's web cache might help. Aside from that, with Crome being by far the most used browser, it seems like the vast majority of users love wasting RAM.

Why does Chrome do that? And which browser doesn't?

Chrome does that because Google uses system resources (RAM as well as a bunch of CPU cycles) to make the browser feel fast & snappy (while it actually is just a hog). Another browser to try would be Firefox, every other browser is just Chrome with another shell.

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ReBoot の投稿を引用：

you from the future の投稿を引用：

Why does Chrome do that? And which browser doesn't?

Chrome does that because Google uses system resources (RAM as well as a bunch of CPU cycles) to make the browser feel fast & snappy (while it actually is just a hog). Another browser to try would be Firefox, every other browser is just Chrome with another shell.

And it is still fast? It's kinda hard to believe that that ram isn't actually used (well).

[ReBoot]

you from the future の投稿を引用：

ReBoot の投稿を引用：

Chrome does that because Google uses system resources (RAM as well as a bunch of CPU cycles) to make the browser feel fast & snappy (while it actually is just a hog). Another browser to try would be Firefox, every other browser is just Chrome with another shell.

And it is still fast? It's kinda hard to believe that that ram isn't actually used (well).

Try it for yourself. Downloading & trying Firefox is free.

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youtube is your friend....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0FLiCcXS4s

what do you think ReBoot are these test valid...

[Cray]

It may not be a good idea, so experiment at your own risk, but killing off steamwebhelper subprocesses (leaving the main one alive) can deter it a bit. for a while steam also seemed to handle it if all steamwebhelper processes were killed - it would just relaunch them. not the case last time i checked.

I got tired of it eating ram I need for other things when it was doing nothing, and just threw in a script to find and kill the steamwebhelper child/sub processes ever 45 minutes, it helped a bit.

steam has become just another one of those awful, bloated, thrown together apps that eat ram like it's infinitely available and seems to require a regular full wipedown to work properly.

problem with "users have plenty of ram" mentality is that when everyone thinks this way, a handful of apps can eat 32 gigs sitting idle. sorry guys, i need that stuff for something useful, and you should learn to code properly.

[m662]

If you have the technical knowledge you can try something like process-governor
https://github.com/lowleveldesign/process-governor

Keep in mind that applications are not written with restrictions in mind and thus can become unstable.