Popcorn-desktop: High RAM Usage

Created on 15 Apr 2020  路  5Comments  路  Source: popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop

Operating System Version: Windows 10 Pro x64

Popcorn Time Version: 0,4,4

Download date: 14/04/2020

Expected Behaviour


Normal RAM usage.

Actual Behaviour


After a few minutes, almost an hour the RAM usage get over 14 GB (i got 16GB), so the entire PC starts to be "laggy", the app doesn't respond, the X for closing just don't work neither the keyboard shortcuts, like hitting ESC.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

  1. Start the app
  2. Watch anything
  3. Wait some time
picture JoecMit
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Most helpful comment

Yeah I know what they mean by it.. just saying it doesnt make much sense even if you have multiple cores (everything does these days..) Its still the same cpu.. ;)
Also makes it very difficult to actually compare things, you might have 32 cores, i might have 2, your 160% isnt the same as mine. On other OSes you would be at 5% usage and I'd be at 80% which makes absolute sense without the need to know anything else.

Good that you found a solution btw, tnxs for posting for anyone else having the same issue.

picture kiriles90 on 15 Apr 2020
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Same here, also nwjs process is using 126% CPU just by opening pocorn

psypersky picture psypersky on 15 Apr 2020

@psypersky macOS should really change that lol.. wth does '126%' even mean? Did the cpu get superpowers?
Try Settings > Security & Privacy > Accessibility and uncheck Popcorn Time if you want and see if it helps.

kiriles90 picture kiriles90 on 15 Apr 2020

@JoecMit please don't create duplicate issue

Duplicate of #1299

Persei08 picture Persei08 on 15 Apr 2020

@kiriles90 that's just the way OSX puts your processing usage https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/5329/what-does-it-mean-when-a-cpu-exceeds-of-cores-x-100.

Just putting my solution, my PT wasn't able to download the new update and nw.js was going crazy using a ton of processing, I deleted PT and downloaded the last one from the page, that fixed the issue.

psypersky picture psypersky on 15 Apr 2020
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Yeah I know what they mean by it.. just saying it doesnt make much sense even if you have multiple cores (everything does these days..) Its still the same cpu.. ;)
Also makes it very difficult to actually compare things, you might have 32 cores, i might have 2, your 160% isnt the same as mine. On other OSes you would be at 5% usage and I'd be at 80% which makes absolute sense without the need to know anything else.

Good that you found a solution btw, tnxs for posting for anyone else having the same issue.

kiriles90 picture kiriles90 on 15 Apr 2020
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