# Anki 2.1.36 Beta

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-36-beta/3893>\
**Category:** Beta Testing\
**Created:** [October 2, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-36-beta/3893 "2020-10-02T03:01:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-36-beta/3893/33 "2020-11-30T07:22:42Z")

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Hi, not sure if this is really an issue, but I wanted to report it nevertheless.  
I noticed that the webviews used in Anki’s interface constantly eat RAM, in small steps, that is only released the webview is destroyed. I don’t really know if that is expected behaviour?  
The issue is on all webviews as far as I can tell. RAM usage steadily increases as soon as the mouse is moved (!), and stops increasing if the mouse is idle. In the Add dialog, I could not observe the memory being freed at some point, unless I close it.

The following short demo illustrates the issue in the Add window, all add-ons are disabled, 2.1.36.

 ![demo_ram](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/d/df11024f5fe55f6e97ee3595f2ca79d679e8756d.gif)

I would estimate it is like 1Mb every 2.5s if you keep busy. Now that might be a non-issue if you just open the Add dialog for a limited amout of time or regularly close and reopen it, but I am running a javascript-heavy add-on in the Add window, whose state is destroyed if I have to reopen the dialog, and which makes me spend quite some time in the Add window.

Edit: Also, the memory usage increases really fast on resizing the window, a short demo:

 ![demo_ram_resize](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/7/743a22384a0596da7213ac9428b8a504207cc532.gif)

This time, the memory seems to not be allocated in the webengine process, but rather in the main thread.  
Edit 2: The memory increase on resize seems to be even larger if the resized window is big in size, e.g. if I drag the main window on a 1080p screen, vertically max-sized, the RAM jumps in like 70-100mb batches.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/a/a7c2fefd6441f089cf5b25e71c8f5b2f5cc9895d.png)  
This is after resizing the main window from left to right (like in the last gif) for like 30-60s.

Edit 3: Maybe this has to do with Hardware Acceleration being enabled, but unfortunately I cannot test if the issue persists without, as I cannot disable it.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/2/26eb63919b0eb12a0bbdd66fb819abb154af82d7.png)

This error occurs everytime I uncheck `Hardware Acceleration`, and if I restart Anki afterwards, the box is checked again (it used the “Auto” gldriver setting then). I definitely have the newest driver for my graphics card (Intel HD Graphics 620).

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