Webtorrent-desktop: why it uses too much memory?
What version of WebTorrent Desktop are you using?
v0.21.0
What operating system and version?
Windows 10 v2004
What happened?
it uses too much ram, 4GB? that's crazy. only 1 file downloading, 2.3GB
andrizmitnick
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hi, in ubuntu 18.04 the same thing, although it eats less than about 2 GB, I鈥檒l add a screen later!
And now screenshot, file download 4.7 gb, and webtorrent use 2.8 gb memory!
By the way, this is not one problem, you cannot change the player on this version, fix it, but I have to roll back to the previous one!
Iseg
on 28 Mar 2020
Keep in mind that all the code (javascript is interpreted language, idk about NodeJS), file buffers for downloading and uploading, and media player must be stored somewhere. This is disadventage of "modern" programming languages like Java, JavaScript and Python (which is less RAM heavy, but more CPU intensive).
raspher
on 17 Jul 2020
Is this causing noticeable problems?
dsernst
on 10 Oct 2020
I'm also having this problem, I was downloading a 3gb ISO memory usage went to 8gb
Slender1808
on 25 Oct 2020
This isn't ideal. Does the memory utilization return to zero when you remove all torrents from the app?
If yes, then it means that WebTorrent is storing file data in memory instead of in the temp folder on the filesystem, which is a bug. If no, then perhaps a memory leak was introduced?
feross
on 27 Oct 2020
With me it happened during download the memory problem, when I finish the download it returned to normal
Slender1808
on 27 Oct 2020
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This isn't ideal. Does the memory utilization return to zero when you remove all torrents from the app?
If yes, then it means that WebTorrent is storing file data in memory instead of in the temp folder on the filesystem, which is a bug. If no, then perhaps a memory leak was introduced?