steamwebhelper process is clogging up my system (ubuntu 22.04)

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#9948 · opened 2023-08-04 by mpupovac · updated 2023-08-04 · 3 comments · github

Mmpupovac 2023-08-04 github

Your system information

Ubuntu 22.04

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Hi! I'm using Steam to run a game via the command line, but I noticed that the steamwebhelper process is clogging up my system. I used to mitigate this with the -vgui switch, but a few days ago i saw that even with or without the -vgui switch the amount of CPU the process takes is unbearable. Is there any way to mitigate this problem?

Please check the output of the top command:

top - 07:12:45 up 13 min,  2 users,  load average: 4.47, 4.31, 2.90
Tasks: 133 total,   2 running, 131 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 83.3 us, 12.8 sy,  3.6 ni,  0.0 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.2 si,  0.2 st
MiB Mem :   7934.2 total,    507.7 free,   3949.4 used,   3477.1 buff/cache
MiB Swap:      0.0 total,      0.0 free,      0.0 used.   3412.6 avail Mem

    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                              
   **2909 support   20   0  696044 265796 131444 S  60.1   3.3   0:38.40 steamwebhelper**                        
   **2675 support   20   0  958180 365012 237256 S  52.8   4.5   0:27.86 steamwebhelper**                        
   **2935 support   20   0 3568956   2.8g 112272 R  42.6  36.5   0:26.34 MyGame-Linux-Sh**                      
   **2982 support   20   0 4705884 238996 171516 S  25.7   2.9   0:13.91 steamwebhelper**                        
   2451 support   20   0  255152 113656  60764 S  13.9   1.4   0:03.88 Xvfb                                  
   2585 support   20   0  680128 184356 135072 S   2.6   2.3   0:11.18 steam                                
   2855 support   20   0 4973584 505588 129632 S   0.7   6.2   0:14.82 steamwebhelper                        
   2840 support   20   0  294264  76668  62328 S   0.3   0.9   0:00.64 steamwebhelper                        
   3117 support   20   0   10908   3824   3248 R   0.3   0.0   0:00.07 top                                  
      1 root      20   0  101176  12048   8376 S   0.0   0.1   0:02.43 systemd                              
      2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd

Mmpupovac 2023-08-04 github

Please check the amount of cpu that it takes compared to the actual game (MyGame-Linux-Sh). It doesn't make any sense that the steamwebhelper takes up most of the resources. Again, i emphasize that this wasn't the case when i used -vgui switch until a couple of days ago. Was the -vgui switch removed? Is there something else i can do to mitigate the issue?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2023-08-04 github

Hello @mpupovac, this issue is already being tracked at #9675. Closing as a duplicate.

Mmpupovac 2023-08-04 github

Hi! Thanks, I was hoping someone could provide a workaround.

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