Insane memory usage Steam Client Webhelper

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t's bad, now Steam client webhelper is using 600mb of my ram and there's no way to stop it. I tried hard stopping using task manager and then it pops up again. Also I changed it so Steam doesn't start when I start up my computer. Also under library I changed the settings to low memory usage. Still in idle, Steam is using 650mb of memory. I have plenty of memory (32 gb) and an i7 with GTX 1660s. The only time I ever had anything use that much memory is with the antivirus BitDefender.

Anyways, if anyone else is seeing this problem where Steam is hogging up tons of memory just idilng, post below.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

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~2.4 GB [Steam Client Webhelper (7)] of 32 GB used !!

..and just and only this thread here is opened..

IDK how that's even possible.
I've had Steam Client running for hours and I've gone through my notifications, look at websites within Steam Community. And here ALL OF STEAM is at 450MB of RAM usgae.

Is Steam doing any game updates in the background at any point? Or has competed some?

I think you all must be doing something wrong.

Steam Settings >
Don't turn Friends on.
Make it default to Library.
Set Library to Low Performance + Low Bandwidth

[N3tRunn3r]

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~2.4 GB [Steam Client Webhelper (7)] of 32 GB used !!

..and just and only this thread here is opened..

IDK how that's even possible.
I've had Steam Client running for hours and I've gone through my notifications, look at websites within Steam Community. And here ALL OF STEAM is at 450MB of RAM usgae.

Is Steam doing any game updates in the background at any point? Or has competed some?

No any updates. I had just run and closed a handful of low games only.

Let me restarting my machine, then lets take a look again.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Why do you need to restart you machine? I restart my machine MAYBE once a week.
You do not need to restart to clear your RAM.

Simply exit Steam.exe properly, wait a few seconds after it's closed; verify with Task Manager

Then relaunch Steam.

I just surfed around a bit more in Steam. It's now @ 300MB

[N3tRunn3r]

well, after restarting it uses ~700 MB of 32 GB ..
[Steam Client Webhelper (6)]

it is even a fresh & clean install of a windows 11 pro machine, as i have received my new hardware parts a few days ago..

however, 700 MB is reasonable, but 2.4 GB is too much indeed..

[Bad 💀 Motha]

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well, after restarting it uses 700 MB of 32 GB ..

it is even a fresh & clean install of a windows 11 pro machine, as i have received my new hardware parts a few days ago..

Yes and you have Steam set to log into FRIENDS do you not?
That's the problem.

[N3tRunn3r]

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well, after restarting it uses 700 MB of 32 GB ..

it is even a fresh & clean install of a windows 11 pro machine, as i have received my new hardware parts a few days ago..

Yes and you have Steam set to log into FRIENDS do you not?
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Yes i do. And the Library is always set as starting tab.

But if Steam keeps about 2.4 GB of RAM used, just by having a single thread open, is too much. Steam so seems to stack resources rather to clean memory up.. until Steam or machine is restarted..

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You do not need to restart to clear your RAM..

P.s.:
Even nowadays to restart a machine is always better than to simply close a program or app to clean up RAM, and even to shut down your machine rather to restart it cleans up even more ram and data, since UEFI 2.x + Secure Boot to faster boot/load up.. so shutting down your machine also cleans/frees up "additional" data and ram which is set to faster boot up your machine.

also an example, if you restart your machine, your WLAN takes a couple of seconds to establish conneciton. if you shutdown your machine and start it again, your WLAN is instantly set up.

similar to smartphones. a restart always cleans up all unneccessary data (semi-temp files) and ram..

to shutdown and/or to restart a PC nowadays takes a few seconds only, not about 3~5 minutes as in the golden ages ^^

[Bad 💀 Motha]

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Yes and you have Steam set to log into FRIENDS do you not?
..

Yes i do. And the Library is always set as starting tab.

But if Steam keeps about 2.4 GB of RAM used, just by having a single thread open, is too much. Steam so seems to stack resources rather to clean memory up.. until Steam or machine is restarted..

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You do not need to restart to clear your RAM..

P.s.:
restaring machine is always better than to simply close a program or app to clean up RAM, and even to shut down your machine rather to restart it cleans up even more ram and data, since UEFI 2.x + Secure Boot to faster boot/load up.. so shutting down your machine also cleans/frees up "additional" data and ram which is set to faster boot up your machine.

also an example, if you restart your machine, your WLAN takes a couple of seconds to establish conneciton. if you shutdown your machine and start it again, your WLAN is instantly set up.

No it is not because of how bloated and stupid Win10 and 11 are, I can actually get the RAM usage down more and more as I use the OS. If I restart WinOS, it's at a bloated 4-5GB usage all over again. Try turning off the Friends Auto-logon for your Steam and then see if then Steam uses alot less RAM after a Steam restart, or if you wish; System Restart + Fresh launch of Steam.

However please never put game clients like Steam in OS Startup.

I seriously don't get why you all are seeing such usages that exceed 1GB at any given time. Only time I ever have that occur is when games are downloading / updating, which is naturally going to happen.

[N3tRunn3r]

Well, you should disable all auto-starting apps through task-manager, except your anti-vir and realtek audio .. especially Edge. but to be able to disable Edge, you need to start and to close it for once.

after restarting machine and with steam running only, ~3.5 GB of RAM are occupied "only".

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... Try turning off the Friends Auto-logon for your Steam and then see if then Steam uses alot less RAM after a Steam restart, or if you wish; System Restart + Fresh launch of Steam...

as said, i am fine with 700 MB useage for the Steam Webhelper and with friends list enabled after restarting my machine. but 2.4 GB is too much, especially while being inside forums only. memory which seems to being stacked over various courses and times.. instead of being cleared.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

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Well, you should disable all auto-starting apps through task-manager, except your anti-vir and realtek audio ..

after restarting machine and with steam running only, ~3.5 GB of RAM are occupied "only".

İlk olarak Bad 💀 Motha tarafından gönderildi:

... Try turning off the Friends Auto-logon for your Steam and then see if then Steam uses alot less RAM after a Steam restart, or if you wish; System Restart + Fresh launch of Steam...

as said, i am fine with 700 MB useage for the Steam Webhelper and with friends list enabled after restarting my machine. but 2.4 GB is too much, especially while being inside forums only. memory which seems to being stacked over various courses and times..

First you don't turn off apps through Task Manager. Not sure how you are managing your PC, but that's just wrong. The apps themselves have a Startup option in their settings, turn it off. Do not have large apps like Steam launch via OS Startup.

But yea I just did a couple launches and such to test it.
Steam Client set to launch into Library + Low Performance + Low Bandwidth = 300MB
Steam Client (same as above) but with Friends List going Online at Steam Startup = 700MB

I kind of figured as much. I don't turn Steam Friends on very often cause I have Steam Chat on my Phone for that. They can always DM me on there. I only turn on Steam Friends listing when I actually want to play an Online game with someone and need to use that feature and such. Otherwise why have it on.

Also Steam Community + Chat I can do within my PC web browser; the Steam Client version of friends listing is very buggy, memory hogging and utter super slow.

[N3tRunn3r]

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First you don't turn off apps through Task Manager. Not sure how you are managing your PC, but that's just wrong. ..

you are wrong.

for example, if edge is disabled via autostart, its framework stays disabled until it is used. if that software which uses the edge framework is closed, it stays closed until next launch.

if edge is not disabled in autostart, edge and all software which uses that framework stay open..

there are no any processes running in my task-manager which uses edge and/or its framework

P.s.:
This Edge issue has been present since WIndows 11, Windows 10 doesnt have this issue. Edge and its framework is omnipresent in Windows 11, just like CEF is for Steam, therefore cannot be "uninstalled", but it can be disabled until a particular software is running.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

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First you don't turn off apps through Task Manager. Not sure how you are managing your PC, but that's just wrong. ..

you are wrong.

for example, if edge is disabled via autostart, its framework stays disabled until it is used. if that software which uses the edge framework is closed, it stays closed until next launch.

if edge is not disabled in autostart, edge and all software which uses that framework stay open..

there are no any processes running in my task-manager which uses edge and/or its framework

P.s.:
This Edge issue has been present since WIndows 11, Windows 10 doesnt have this issue. Edge and its framework is omnipresent in Windows 11, just like CEF is for Steam, therefore cannot be "uninstalled", but it can be disabled until a particular software is running.

Yes that's juat for MS stuff. You don't use that method for non MS stuff

[N3tRunn3r]

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you are wrong.

for example, if edge is disabled via autostart, its framework stays disabled until it is used. if that software which uses the edge framework is closed, it stays closed until next launch.

if edge is not disabled in autostart, edge and all software which uses that framework stay open..

there are no any processes running in my task-manager which uses edge and/or its framework

P.s.:
This Edge issue has been present since WIndows 11, Windows 10 doesnt have this issue. Edge and its framework is omnipresent in Windows 11, just like CEF is for Steam, therefore cannot be "uninstalled", but it can be disabled until a particular software is running.

Yes that's juat for MS stuff. You don't use that method for non MS stuff

It does also work for "non-Microsoft" stuff. Especially for non-MS software..

and if non-MS programs are NOT running, they stay closed and especially their processes.. i am not sure what you are trying to confuse and/or to contradict here..

If software is disabled in autostart, software and their processes stay closed until launched... just like Steam, ProtonVPN, Edge, Xbox App Services, .. Steam is not even listed in my autostart of the task-manager.

If these software are NOT disabled in autostart, these keep open and running, even AFTER closing programs just like Edge and its framework.

So it is literally neccessary to "manually" disable stuff in autostart of Windows. These software and their processes then become really closed after closing/exiting, just like Edge and stuff.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea no crap. I'm just saying for non-MS apps that's generally not how you handle that option. Usually just go into the app settings. And disable OS Startup or Start with Windows option.

Non-MS products do not tend to get listed in Task Manager > Startup tab was my whole point.

[N3tRunn3r]

Good, conversation about that is now over.

[MblSH]

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Why do you need to restart you machine?

I needed to restart my machine because steamwebhelper killed it the night before )

This was not the case previously, but recently I had to remove 32gb of RAM to put in my kid's PC and now mine dies every single day since then