The steam client has several cleanup issues in the back end evident. One big one is excessive RAM usage when not performing any tasks. I'm also seeing many extra threads which are open and active, but should only be run periodically and could be moved to a single thread.
Also, thread names are fairly non-descript. There are over 15 "MainThrd"'s. I'm pretty sure there's only actualy one.
This many threads and high ram usage stresses the virtual memory, slub allocator, and CFS subsystems. It is also killing my machine's battery life.
The steam client has several cleanup issues in the back end evident. One big one is excessive RAM usage when not performing any tasks. I'm also seeing many extra threads which are open and active, but should only be run periodically and could be moved to a single thread.
Also, thread names are fairly non-descript. There are over 15 "MainThrd"'s. I'm pretty sure there's only actualy one.
This many threads and high ram usage stresses the virtual memory, slub allocator, and CFS subsystems. It is also killing my machine's battery life.