After closing brave and logging out, I kept hearing the laptop fans jetting as if I was compiling a kernel from source. I logged back in, started a terminal and launched htop to see that 2 Cores running constantly at 100%. The culprit was /opt/brave/brave and some other parameters that I couldn't catch because it kept disappearing and reappearing every second. I decided to reboot and it froze at the RC screen (used the power button to force shutdown).
*Issue: 2
it seems that there is a memory leak, which might explain why /opt/brave/brave occupied 32GB of virtual memory. I managed to capture the output of valgrind -s -v --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all --log-file=brave_mem_leak.txt brave-bin which is a very large file.
rebron
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2 weeks ago
Description
*Issue: 1
After closing brave and logging out, I kept hearing the laptop fans jetting as if I was compiling a kernel from source. I logged back in, started a terminal and launched
htopto see that 2 Cores running constantly at 100%. The culprit was/opt/brave/braveand some other parameters that I couldn't catch because it kept disappearing and reappearing every second. I decided to reboot and it froze at the RC screen (used the power button to force shutdown).*Issue: 2
it seems that there is a memory leak, which might explain why
/opt/brave/braveoccupied 32GB of virtual memory. I managed to capture the output ofvalgrind -s -v --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all --log-file=brave_mem_leak.txt brave-binwhich is a very large file.brave_mem_leak.txt
Steps to reproduce
htopActual result
hight CPU usage (zombie process) and memory leak.
Expected result
the brave process to {die} after quitting the application. No memory leak.
Reproduces how often
Easily reproduced
Brave version (brave://version info)
Brave | 1.67.123 Chromium: 126.0.6478.126 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit)Revision | fc7619ef621fe4e6a0fa8b16c718f78ffc97a861OS | LinuxChannel information
Reproducibility
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