Steam Client Webhelper memory usage

[Shlupi]

I'm not very familiar with this, but i'm pretty sure Steam Client Webhelper shouldn't use over 1.4GB of RAM, especially when i'm playing Dota 2 and all Steam softwares are closed.
It is literally using 100% of RAM and slows down every other programs, including Dota (ping goes over 1000 ms, packet loss is 40%+) and it is nearly impossible for me to shut down that process in time (it takes me about 10 minutes just to minimize dota + 15 min to open task manager etc...).
I'd really appreciate any kind of help that can solve this issue. Thanks.

[wuddih]

you are heavily using the steam overlay? yes? use your normal webbrowser instead and alt+tab manage the stuff.

[Kevin]

idk whats wrong with yours mine is only using about 138mb

[Sparzy]

Yesterday all i did was trade some cards and look for deals for about 30 mins or so and steam was about 1.2gb and 1 of the webhelper things was 100k, im tired of the memory leak.

[Shlupi]

wuddih님이 먼저 게시:

you are heavily using the steam overlay? yes? use your normal webbrowser instead and alt+tab manage the stuff.

That's the thing, i don't use steam at all while playing, only for chatting (shift + tab ingame), sometimes the process just go way up and f**** me up.

[Sparzy]

Before they did the webhelper thing steam used to still go up but it took longer, like a few weeks, fair enough i dont trade cards all the time only on these events. Now its going up by a few 100k a day.

[IronBack]

steam web helper is very crash prone and it fails to detect when the process is stalled.... so i concluded they pretty much put it in to get some sponsors aproval

[IronBack]

i forgot to mention it also induces occasional hiccups in games ( split second freezes resulting in a dropped frame "seems to need to peroidoicly reload itself while your playing games")

[Master]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=433233265

Has been a week that when I open steam I often have to terminate the aforementioned process, or I am unable to view any page other than those in the Library section.

Also I have at least 2 steamwebhelper.exe *32 services running, and one of them uses an incremental quantity of memory, ending up to be 1/2Gb before I notice that and I terminate it.

Terribly annoying. Needs to be fixed ASAP.

[Sparzy]

xᴄᴀᴠᴀ86x님이 먼저 게시:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=433233265

Has been a week that when I open steam I often have to terminate the aforementioned process, or I am unable to view any page other than those in the Library section.

Also I have at least 2 steamwebhelper.exe *32 services running, and one of them uses an incremental quantity of memory, ending up to be 1/2Gb before I notice that and I terminate it.

Terribly annoying. Needs to be fixed ASAP.

I've noticed when i use the market a lot the memory goes up faster, it takes a day or 2 instead of a week or so to get the same number.

[Master]

I don't know what's up with my installation, but it takes me 30 minutes/few hours, without even browsing the market.
I browse Discussions and Profiles usually.

[Carnamate]

exiting steam seems to fix this

[Robert F.]

why steemwebhelper 3.5 gb??????님이 먼저 게시:

exiting steam seems to fix this

Do you really have to necro a 6 year old thread?

However I do also have the similar problem as well. Someone made a workaround post and have you try removing "What's New" shelf from your Steam Library?

For whatever that workaround somehow works for me.