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one steamwebhelper process used >1GB GPU memory

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6962 · opened 2020-03-15 by Shajirr · updated 2020-03-15 · 2 comments · github
SShajirr 2020-03-15 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version, build date: Feb 11 2020, at 19:27:00
  • Distribution: Manjaro KDE
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

A single steamwebhelper process consumed 1200 MB video memory,
nvidia-smi showed:
0 2941 G ...logs/cef_log.txt --product-version=Valv 1230MiB

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  • open Steam
  • browse some pages in the store
  • check process video memory consumption with nvidia-smi

Attached cef_log.txt files.
cef_log.txt
cef_log.previous.txt

SShajirr 2020-03-15 github

Update: this might be identical to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/6715,
each time I resize Steam window the steamwebhelper grows by about 200-500MB memory use, does not free up used memory.

I successfully increased steamwebhelper's size past 5GB, and it seems it can be increased indefinitely.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-03-15 github

Hello @WhiteSp1rit, there's no point in tracking this issue in multiple issue reports. Closing as a duplicate of #6715.

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