I installed Cachy OS a little while ago and have had no problems so far. I had to have a surgery which prevented using my PC for about 2 week and now i can see that Steam has some sort of memory leak. i launch it and memory usage spikes very high and then goes down a bit and then starts using more and more until the system crashes. i can play minecraft fine and SP Tarkov and open lutris and heroic launcher etc all fine but steam is a solid nope.
i have tried reinstalling steam and resetting it but cant figure out what is causing it. ive tried searching for answers online but cant seem to find anything related to my situation.
when i launch steam i get this in loop:
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 782c), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 7844), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 7854), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 785c), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 786c), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 787c), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 7894), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 78a4), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 78ac), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 78bc), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 78d4), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 78e4), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 78ec), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 78fc), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 7914), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 7924), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 792c), starting debugger…
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 000000000000036E at address 00006FFFFDCE7437 (thread 793c), starting debugger…
and i am not too sure how this would be solved or if this is even the issue.
i am also not too sure if i am just being dumb. i am definetly not a linux power user but i somewhat know my way round linux.
just to provide a bit of additional information these are my stystem specs:
❯ inxi -b
System:
Host: cachyos Kernel: 7.0.12-1-cachyos arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Hyprland v: 0.55.4 Distro: CachyOS
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B850 EAGLE WIFI6E
serial: Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends LLC.
v: F9 date: 02/05/2026
CPU:
Info: 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 9700X [MT MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 5529
min/max: 605/5582
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 32 [Radeon RX 7700 XT /
7800 XT] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Granite Ridge [Radeon Graphics]
driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.23 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.12
compositor: Hyprland v: 0.55.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: modesetting dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu resolution:
1: 2560x1440~165Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 26.1.2-arch2.1 renderer: AMD
Radeon RX 7700 XT (radeonsi navi32 ACO DRM 3.64 7.0.12-1-cachyos)
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo wl: nwg-displays
x11: xprop,xrandr
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210/AX1675 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] driver: iwlwifi
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 539.47 GiB (56.6%)
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.46 GiB used: 3.28 GiB (10.8%)
Processes: 415 Uptime: 42m Shell: fish inxi: 3.3.40