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We’ll use a chunk store that stores data to disk instead of to memory. I have a plan for fixing this issue and reducing RAM usage. Reproduces how often:Įasily reproduced Brave version (brave://version info) 8GB RAM are going to have a sad time when they download an 8GB+ torrent. Torrent should not consume RAM in proportion to the torrent size, since this means that users with e.g. Torrent is stored in memory instead of on the disk.

Open Activity Monitor.app on Mac and observe memory usage climbing in proportion to the amount of torrent that is downloaded.

This is because webpack is used to build the JS for the WebTorrent extension and that causes WebTorrent to substitute certain packages using the package.json “browser” field.

It appears that it is being initialized with the in-memory storage mode instead of the filesystem mode. I can see the RAM usage of the “Brave Browser Helper” process increase along with the amount of the torrent that is downloaded, which should not happen. WebTorrent seems to be keeping the entire torrent in memory as the file is downloaded.