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Steam's Latest Client Update Introduces Many Refinements for Linux (news.itsfoss.com)
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[-] Rin@lemm.ee 21 points 4 weeks ago

Oh yeah. If you leave a steam page open, it'll create a very slow memory leak. Left store page open for about a week, came back to 6gb steamwebhelper xd

[-] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 weeks ago

Wait really?! Feel like that's a bug that really needs addressing

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

what kind of sane person is gonna leave a steam page open for over a week, though?

[-] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

I can see it easily being accidentally left open if you have a busy desktop and don't regularly restart your PC

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago

In my case, i use multiple workspaces. Had a workspace for gaming set up and left the window on the store page. Had a busy week so I didn't game. I usually don't turn off my computer because I contribute to Folding@Home at night. Week flies by and I start to wonder why my ram is full and investigate :D

[-] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago

What kind of sane person is gonna debug and track down a memory leak, though? Just buy more ram

[-] slaveOne@reddthat.com 6 points 4 weeks ago

What kind of sane person is going to buy more RAM? Just download it

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago

Just mount your swap partition on google drive. xd

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

people who like having money?????

[-] Comtief@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago

I mean.. I often open steam for something and then kind of forget about it.

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago

memory leak's at a rate that doesn't matter (~30mb/hour). That makes it hard to track down & reproduce. Also, solution would be to just navigate to your steam library or just not leave the window open like that :p

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

That makes it hard to track down & reproduce.

no it doesnt?

It's a web browser, it's only going to come from one place lmao.

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