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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (19 children)

Oh yeah. If you leave a steam page open, it'll create a very slow memory leak. Left store page open for about a week, came back to 6gb steamwebhelper xd

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (18 children)

Wait really?! Feel like that's a bug that really needs addressing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (7 children)

what kind of sane person is gonna leave a steam page open for over a week, though?

[–] towerful -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What kind of sane person is gonna debug and track down a memory leak, though? Just buy more ram

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What kind of sane person is going to buy more RAM? Just download it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Just mount your swap partition on google drive. xd

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

people who like having money?????

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