When I download games or leave Steam open for a long period of time (around 2 hours), my system becomes unusable because of a memory leak caused by the Steam client.
Here is a screenshot to a program called htop showing the memory usage by the Steam client: https://i.imgur.com/YHwU6ez.png
When I close Steam, the memory usage goes down to 1GB and the Swap partition is cleared.
Probably because steam is using a very outdated version of chromium 49 vs the most recent stable 52
Hello @DrakeJa, are you still experiencing this issue on an up to date system?
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When I download games or leave Steam open for a long period of time (around 2 hours), my system becomes unusable because of a memory leak caused by the Steam client.
Here is a screenshot to a program called htop showing the memory usage by the Steam client: https://i.imgur.com/YHwU6ez.png
When I close Steam, the memory usage goes down to 1GB and the Swap partition is cleared.
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