Python, Selenium and Chromedriver - endless loop using find_element_by_id causes CPU problem

Question

Good day to all! I\'ve been experiencing this problem for a week now but I don\'t think I can solve it and I also do not see any solution based on articles online. Hopefully

Answer 1

Have you tried releasing memory into the loop? Maybe by picking up the values (list out of the loop?) and then resetting those variables to None you can avoid excessive memory consumption.

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while True:

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    close1 = close2 = close3 = close4 = close5 = close6 = None

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You can also try forcing the garbage collector:

import gc

while True: 
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    gc.collect()

If you think that the reason may be a script another another solution to detect the problem might be to enable Chrome to do remote debug and debug the page.

--remote-debugging-port=9222

I hope some of this helps you.