Zamundaaa
commented
4 years ago Hmm, my Steam client "only" takes 644MB of RAM
Open coozoo opened 4 years ago
Zamundaaa
commented
4 years ago Hmm, my Steam client "only" takes 644MB of RAM
coozoo
commented
4 years ago @Zamundaaa maybe size caused by "Fedora distro", actually I didn't check but suppose that maybe on ubuntu it uses shared libraries but for fedora they're somehow "bottled". But anyway it doesn't change the fact that despite you logout from chat minimize your client none of this object memory reduced.
Just realized that it's good to have list of processes, cause previously I've provided size only
$ echo $(( $(ps aux|grep steam|awk {'print $6;'}|paste -sd+ | bc) /1024 )) MB
1114 MB
$ ps aux|grep steam
happine+ 30711 0.0 0.0 218660 3644 ? S 00:07 0:00 /usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/steam
happine+ 30729 0.0 0.0 218792 3860 ? S 00:07 0:00 bash /home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh
happine+ 30936 9.2 0.7 635960 162048 ? Sl 00:07 0:07 /home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
happine+ 30942 0.0 0.1 136712 26940 ? Ss 00:07 0:00 /home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
happine+ 30943 0.0 0.0 218676 3596 ? S 00:07 0:00 /bin/bash /home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper.sh -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=30936 -buildid=1576550254 -steamid=0 -steamuniverse=Public -clientui=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/clientui --enable-blink-features=ResizeObserver,Worklet,AudioWorklet --enable-media-stream --enable-smooth-scrolling --disable-accelerated-video-decode --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt
happine+ 30954 5.6 0.6 754996 128284 ? Sl 00:07 0:04 ./steamwebhelper -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=30936 -buildid=1576550254 -steamid=0 -steamuniverse=Public -clientui=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/clientui --enable-blink-features=ResizeObserver,Worklet,AudioWorklet --enable-media-stream --enable-smooth-scrolling --disable-accelerated-video-decode --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt
happine+ 30958 0.0 0.2 445544 48056 ? S 00:07 0:00 /home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper --type=zygote --no-sandbox --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --product-version=Valve Steam Client --lang=en_US.UTF-8
happine+ 30970 7.2 0.6 601564 141448 ? Sl 00:07 0:05 /home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper --type=gpu-process --field-trial-handle=7975560464605026202,17365102877775963768,131072 --disable-features=OutOfBlinkCors --no-sandbox --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --product-version=Valve Steam Client --lang=en_US.UTF-8 --gpu-preferences=KAAAAAAAAAAhAAAgAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAA --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --service-request-channel-token=5655289148438704911
happine+ 30980 3.4 0.3 552996 79176 ? SLl 00:07 0:02 /home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper --type=utility --field-trial-handle=7975560464605026202,17365102877775963768,131072 --disable-features=OutOfBlinkCors --lang=en-US --service-sandbox-type=network --no-sandbox --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --product-version=Valve Steam Client --lang=en_US.UTF-8 --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --service-request-channel-token=1046324541615631935 --shared-files=v8_context_snapshot_data:100,v8_natives_data:101
happine+ 31079 23.6 1.0 877740 213076 ? Sl 00:07 0:16 /home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper --type=renderer --no-sandbox --disable-accelerated-video-decode --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --field-trial-handle=7975560464605026202,17365102877775963768,131072 --disable-features=OutOfBlinkCors --enable-blink-features=ResizeObserver,Worklet,AudioWorklet --lang=en-US --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --product-version=Valve Steam Client --num-raster-threads=4 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --service-request-channel-token=13509196123192726028 --renderer-client-id=5 --shared-files=v8_context_snapshot_data:100,v8_natives_data:101
happine+ 31108 7.9 0.6 1875096 140756 ? Sl 00:07 0:05 /home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper --type=renderer --no-sandbox --disable-accelerated-video-decode --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --field-trial-handle=7975560464605026202,17365102877775963768,131072 --disable-features=OutOfBlinkCors --enable-blink-features=ResizeObserver,Worklet,AudioWorklet --lang=en-US --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --product-version=Valve Steam Client --num-raster-threads=4 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --service-request-channel-token=12249217488161606696 --renderer-client-id=7 --shared-files=v8_context_snapshot_data:100,v8_natives_data:101
happine+ 31119 3.0 0.6 1840656 126740 ? Sl 00:07 0:02 /home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper --type=renderer --no-sandbox --disable-accelerated-video-decode --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --field-trial-handle=7975560464605026202,17365102877775963768,131072 --disable-features=OutOfBlinkCors --enable-blink-features=ResizeObserver,Worklet,AudioWorklet --lang=en-US --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --product-version=Valve Steam Client --num-raster-threads=4 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --service-request-channel-token=17214736206325759847 --renderer-client-id=9 --shared-files=v8_context_snapshot_data:100,v8_natives_data:101
happine+ 31167 0.0 0.2 751668 53356 ? Sl 00:07 0:00 /home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper --type=utility --field-trial-handle=7975560464605026202,17365102877775963768,131072 --disable-features=OutOfBlinkCors --lang=en-US --service-sandbox-type=audio --no-sandbox --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --product-version=Valve Steam Client --lang=en_US.UTF-8 --log-file=/home/happiness/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --service-request-channel-token=1582184817291004596 --shared-files=v8_context_snapshot_data:100,v8_natives_data:101
happine+ 31300 0.0 0.0 217840 876 pts/1 S+ 00:08 0:00 grep --color=auto steam
Nayr438
commented
4 years ago 1.2GB here at the time of this post on Manjaro.
hyiltiz
commented
4 years ago 886 MB in Debian testing after a fresh restart of the OS and newly opened Steam (no game started yet).
coozoo
commented
4 years ago Oh actually bought Syberia3 that works only under windows. So installed it on wine and found out that windows version even worst.. It's just started windows steam with logged out from chat...
$ echo $(( $(ps aux|grep -i prog|grep -i steam|awk {'print $6;'}|paste -sd+ | bc) /1024 )) MB 1343 MB
SirBubbles
commented
3 years ago Still ongoing here, noticing the same issue under Manjaro. Please give us some insights as to the cause, or at least some update.
BloodyIron
commented
3 years ago STEAM just sitting idle, consuming 13.7% of my CPU with "cef_log.txt". Windows aren't even open. WTF is it even doing besides keeping my CPU warm? COME ON VALVe.
kochd
commented
2 years ago rm /home/$USER/.steam/logs/cef_log.txt
ln -s /dev/null /home/$USER/.steam/logs/cef_log.txtCPU usage is gone
BloodyIron
commented
2 years ago Surely cef_log.txt actually performs a function for steam/VALVe. linking it to /dev/null isn't a solution. We need VALVe to act on this.
BloodyIron
commented
2 years ago And just to clarify the cef_log.txt file still gets pretty active for me for CPU usage.
hyiltiz
commented
2 years ago I blacklist a large list of files by linked the paths to /dev/null since steam pulls so many extra stuff. The practice works well with some games too, esp. those that download (and keep!) weekly promo posters; those animating high-res textures and looped soundtracks quickly pile up to take up too much space. It also makes loading the game much faster.
coozoo
commented
1 year ago it's getting worse and worse. after recent updates it can goes up to 3 GB freshly launched client more than 1.5 GB
Freshly launched client
$ echo $(( $(ps aux|grep steam|awk {'print $6;'}|paste -sd+ | bc) /1024 )) MB
1647 MBafter about 6 hours, none of games played, basically did nothing just few conversations in chat and memory footprint 2 GB
$ echo $(( $(ps aux|grep steam|awk {'print $6;'}|paste -sd+ | bc) /1024 )) MB
2003 MBit is horrible.... and unacceptable....
coozoo
commented
1 year ago really it's not a joke, after some disconnection of steam client (keep in mind it's not internet disconnection)
the main window and chat were automatically unminimized from tray (it's another story about bad behaviour window managment)
and my memory was filled up by steam more than 14GB by one application
$ echo $(( $(ps aux|grep steam|awk {'print $6;'}|paste -sd+ | bc) /1024 )) MB
14699 MB
$ ps aux|grep steam
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yuriyku+ 1014511 0.0 0.0 223640 1616 ? S Jul25 0:00 bash /home/yuriykuzin/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh
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yuriyku+ 1912011 0.0 0.1 546476 37736 ? Sl Jul28 0:10 /home/yuriykuzin/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper --type=utility --utility-sub-type=network.mojom.NetworkService --field-trial-handle=6064723763914981015,1793264268350249747,131072 --enable-features=CastMediaRouteProvider --disable-features=SameSiteByDefaultCookies --lang=en-US --service-sandbox-type=network --log-file=/home/yuriykuzin/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --product-version=Valve Steam Client --lang=en_US.UTF-8 --buildid=1689034492 --steamid=76561198033268776 --log-file=/home/yuriykuzin/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --shared-files=v8_snapshot_data:100
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yuriyku+ 2735251 0.0 0.0 222584 2464 pts/20 S+ 10:22 0:00 grep --color=auto steam
you can see mostly it's one process
$ ps aux|grep steam|grep 313667
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$ echo $(( $(ps aux|grep steam|awk {'print $6;'}|paste -sd+ | bc) /1024 )) MB
6597 MBalmost 7GB by steam filter and no huge process and everything terribly slow hm
let's try to count processes
$ ps aux|grep steam|wc -l
85What the freck is this it's damn 85 processes I even made this section hidden you can expand it below
85 process with the size 72MB I'm afraid it's deserved its own bug...
you can see my steam has been launched about 5-6 days ago and then at some moment "wonder" happened
killall steam and my laptop back to life
BloodyIron
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12 months ago Yeah those look like they are zombie processes, not being properly killed. I've been running STEAM for longer periods than that and haven't seen the same symptoms as yourself.
I'd also like to point out that using 1.5GB when launching an application as feature-rich as STEAM is plenty commonplace in the modern application reasonable expectations regards. Not only for how much it's presenting to you visually, but all that it's doing behind the scenes too.
I just launched htop and filtered for "cef_log" to check CPU usage now relative to back in 2021, and the "cef_log" usage issue stopped long ago, and isn't present for me right now.
As for your circumstance @coozoo the zombie processes and such sure is something noteworthy. But it makes me think the issue may be coming from somewhere else. I myself use Ubuntu and am currently on 23.04, and maybe there's something going on with your Fedora install (or version) that is influencing the difference in outcomes. Maybe see what the behaviour is like on an Ubuntu system?
coozoo
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12 months ago @BloodyIron I don't think it's system related even more all of this usually present on windows, just windows users usually less care about this because there is lot of other processes that consumes their memory and CPU time.
And what I've described just has been happened once. Again I had recently disconnection and steam window "pop-up"ed automatically together with the chat (during 6 days I had maybe dozen of them) . despite like previous times (it's not always) it was created one huge process this time it was lot of small.
Rather than system related I think it is more related to holly random and developers hands... as much as they don't care to fix small problems they introducing new features and making everything worse and worse...
BloodyIron
commented
12 months ago I think you should try other distros before you start placing blame. I, and many others, do not have this problem.
coozoo
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12 months ago I think you should try other distros before you start placing blame. I, and many others, do not have this problem.
I'm not "placing blame". I've just opened bug and bug is a bug nothing more. Steam claiming to be cross-platform means any distro should be nice, not just some.
BTW story maybe 5-7 years ago, I had old PC with win7 and 4GB RAM and I've used to play tombraider there without a problem, after upgrading to new chrome based steam it started to ate more than 1 GB memory under dearest windows and sure tombraider wasn't playable anymore... As well I've asked a friend to check recently his steam client size and all processes under windows 10 were more than 1GB. And he said he's just closing everyday otherwise it became slow as hell. Distro problem? I don't think so.
Yes there is some flags when you feed them into command line steam after start fits under 1GB but just when you start using it grows in few hours.
brauliobo
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6 months ago rm /home/$USER/.steam/logs/cef_log.txt ln -s /dev/null /home/$USER/.steam/logs/cef_log.txt
Updated this with
rm /home/$USER/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt && ln -sf /dev/null /home/$USER/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txtBut still cef_log process is taking 40% of an cpu core (see screenshot below)
Is it possible to disable it?
rehhouari
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5 months ago 1.4GB idle on Arch Low performance mode on Low bandwidth mode on Disable community content on GPU acceleration off Even with window minimized, or when using mini library. no change.
Bring back -no-browser option
Your system information
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Steam client consumes a lot of RAM almost 1GB. It's a lot for webstore(socialnetwork), chat and game launcher. There is no possibility to reduce memory consumption even when you logged out from chat and your steam minimized to tray it is still active some steamwebhelper processes that consume memory.
It should be some possibility to reduce memory, I want to just a play my game.
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