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steam web helper uses a lot of system resources

steamclosed Big PictureoverlayDistro Family: Arch
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8548 · opened 2022-04-23 by zany130 · updated 2022-04-23 · 1 comments · github
Zzany130 2022-04-23 github

Your system information

https://gist.github.com/zany130/8f4b434bde92c432bc5dd1bc4f4a5257

  • Steam client version (build number or date): April 20 2022
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Garuda Linux
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes]
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes]

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

While playing The Legend Of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel III I noticed I was getting performance drops and the steam big picture overlay was unresponsive. Acording to kde system monitor steam was spawning several steamwebhelper processes which where putting a 20% load on my GPU (GTX 1080) and my CPU (Ryzen 2600x) as well as a 10% load on the GPU memory and almost a GB of ram.

This also seems to happen even when I am not playing a game or even using the steam interface (steam is in the background doing nothing)

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. open steam
  2. open a task manager
  3. notice high system usage
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2022-04-23 github

Hello @zany130, this issue is already being tracked at #6500. Feel free to add your experience to the older issue report. Closing as a duplicate.

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