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Task manager lists all processes as occupying 0 bytes

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Description

While trying to figure out why Brave was occupying 3 GB+ memory (lots of internal web pages like to leak), I opened the task manager and saw everything at 0 bytes of memory

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open task manager

Actual result:

Screen Shot 2020-03-31 at 1:34:42 PM

Expected result:

Memory usage to display as something at least a little more realistic

Reproduces how often:

100% of the time

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave:    1.5.115 Chromium: 80.0.3987.149 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision: 5f4eb224680e5d7dca88504586e9fd951840cac6-refs/branch-heads/3987_137@{#16}
OS:       macOS Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G3020)

Version/Channel Information:

  • Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Not tried
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the dev channel? Not tried
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Not tried

Other Additional Information:

  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? N/A
  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? Yes (haven’t enabled it)
  • Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Miscellaneous Information:

This is on a managed work computer with internet access logged.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

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gttotevcommented, Apr 27, 2020

It appears to be fixed for me now on:

Brave: 1.7.98 Chromium: 81.0.4044.113 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision: e3225dafb0475864a1812a374d73a92e391635ac-refs/branch-heads/4044@{#936}
OS:  macOS Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G4032)
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dead-claudiacommented, Apr 1, 2020

If it helps, it persisted through multiple browser restarts for me, and I only first noticed it after the latest update.

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