Re: How please to reduce the size of Opera in memory after a
while

>JMM <jm.maldjian@libertysurf.fr> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>It is my first post here, and I say hello to all participants, as a french 

>user of Opera
>
>I seen that the size of Opera is increasing a lot after browsing some pages
>I obtain easily 100 Mo after browsing 10 mn, giving a slow down of my  
>system ( Old Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz/, 512 Mo, XP )
>
>Is ther any way to reduce that " size increasing " ( cache tuning
?? )  
>without loosing all pre recorded word for some sites ?
>thank you for your help, best regards

If you are talking about reducing the amount of memory used by Opera in
a session, you can simply minimize Opera then re-maximize it. 

For example, when I did that a moment ago, Task Manager shows that Opera
went from 97 MB to 12 MB.

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Hello,

It is my first post here, and I say hello to all participants, as a french  
user of Opera

I seen that the size of Opera is increasing a lot after browsing some pages
I obtain easily 100 Mo after browsing 10 mn, giving a slow down of my  
system ( Old Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz/, 512 Mo, XP )

Is ther any way to reduce that " size increasing " ( cache tuning ?? )
 
without loosing all pre recorded word for some sites ?
thank you for your help, best regards

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Op Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:14:29 +0200 schreef JMM  
<jm.maldjian@libertysurf.fr>:

> Hello,
>
> It is my first post here, and I say hello to all participants, as a  
> french user of Opera
>
> I seen that the size of Opera is increasing a lot after browsing some  
> pages
> I obtain easily 100 Mo after browsing 10 mn, giving a slow down of my  
> system ( Old Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz/, 512 Mo, XP )
>
> Is ther any way to reduce that " size increasing " ( cache tuning
?? )  
> without loosing all pre recorded word for some sites ?
> thank you for your help, best regards

See Tools > Preferences > Advanced > History, change the setting for  
memory caching from automatic to some specific value. Whether 100 is too  
much depends on the sites you visit etc, and what other things you are  
doing in the machine at the same time.

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                                                    Rijk van Geijtenbeek
                                  Opera Software ASA, Documentation & QA
                                   Tweak: http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/

"The most common way to get usability wrong is to listen to what users

> If you are talking about reducing the amount of memory used by Opera in
> a session, you can simply minimize Opera then re-maximize it.

How interesting.  If it's a simple as that, it suggests there is something 
Opera could itself do to release some memory, without making the user do a 
minimise/restore action.  How about it, Rijk?

Rijk van Geijtenbeek <rijk@opera-dot-com.invalid> wrote:

> Op Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:08:42 +0200 schreef Steve Thackery  
> <nobody@nowhere.com>:
> 
> >> If you are talking about reducing the amount of memory used by
Opera in
> >> a session, you can simply minimize Opera then re-maximize it.
> >
> > How interesting.  If it's a simple as that, it suggests there is  
> > something Opera could itself do to release some memory, without
making
> > the user do a minimise/restore action.  How about it, Rijk?
> 
> I know just enough to know I shouldn't try to talk about things I don't
> understand, like the way operating systems handle (and show) memory usage
> per application.

I should also note that this "trick" does not seem to work with Mac
based systems.
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