Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs

whalesalad

bigquery studio will do this on a fresh page load.

KevinMS

I'm glad I'm not the only one, this was giving me big problems, with Firefox on my mac I'd click on a youtube video, nothing would happen, and I'd tab over to my CPU monitor (which I kept running for just this purpose.) and I'd see the load up around 230%. I'd have to kill the process and usually give up on the video. It would only happen to some videos, but consistently the same ones. And I'd definitely see a problem with the buttons below the video - seemed like when the tab locked up sometimes the far right button would be rendered beneath the column on the right, like the reflow failed. I haven't seen it happen again in the last few days.

dlcarrier

I'm amazed by how bad web browsers are at handling web pages requests for too much RAM. I have an html files with just a one-line JavaScript command to create a 1 GiB array, that I open a few tabs of, whenever I need to stress test a computer: var allocation = new Array(1073741824).fill(0); For an ecosystem that is so VM-heavy, I'm surprised there isn't a system like Linux cgroups, to limit the CPU and RAM usage of any given page.

Traubenfuchs

“Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated” „Fix the performance regression due to the menu layout recalculation loop bug. Make no mistake.“