Memory Optimization Tips

[iamshouvikmitra]

What are some of the memory and CPU optimizations we could do maybe in terms of puppeteer flags and other for running this library at scale?
Let's say the use case requires to keep the user to be logged in most of the time say 24/7 from the server side of things to keep all incoming and outgoing messages syncing to a DB and suppose we are using an EC2 instance for hosting the application.
Also, Is using some other hosted service like browserless something you guys would recommend? I am really new to headless browser space and automation using them in general.

[iamshouvikmitra]

I found that initializing a client with

new Client({
                puppeteer: {
                    args: [
                        '--no-sandbox',
                        '--disable-setuid-sandbox',
                        '--disable-dev-shm-usage',
                        '--disable-accelerated-2d-canvas',
                        '--no-first-run',
                        '--no-zygote',
                        '--disable-gpu'
                      ],
                }
            })

should help but I am not sure, would appreciate your inputs.

[gabriel-tandil]

Hi! I run it this way, I'm going to try some of these options you mentioned there.

   , args: [
          '--log-level=3', // fatal only
          '--start-maximized',
          '--no-default-browser-check',
          '--disable-infobars', 
          '--disable-web-security',
          '--disable-site-isolation-trials',
          '--no-experiments',
          '--ignore-gpu-blacklist',
          '--ignore-certificate-errors',
          '--ignore-certificate-errors-spki-list',
          '--disable-gpu',
          '--disable-extensions',
          '--disable-default-apps',
          '--enable-features=NetworkService',
          '--disable-setuid-sandbox',
          '--no-sandbox'
        ]

Greetings

[joaomirandas]

Hi everyone, i run neutral without any args and i realized continually puppeter takes more and more memory, it's a problem if you need keep your application running 24/7.
If you have any ideia of how to decrease this amount i will be glad to know.

My memory consumption in time-window of 12Hours.

Notice: I use a lot of other things inside of this docker container so don't scare with how large is my memory but essentially in how this increase with time elapsed.

[aliyss]

Is there a difference if it's running headless or not?

[gabriel-tandil]

Beyond consuming less or not running it headless, having an environment without any support for a graphic system is lighter than a complete environment with window manager and other needs.

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[PiyushDuggal-source]

Hi everyone, i run neutral without any args and i realized continually puppeter takes more and more memory, it's a problem if you need keep your application running 24/7. If you have any ideia of how to decrease this amount i will be glad to know.

My memory consumption in time-window of 12Hours.

Notice: I use a lot of other things inside of this docker container so don't scare with how large is my memory but essentially in how this increase with time elapsed.

Hey did you try with arguments and compare?