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Our artists at work were drowning with 8 GB of RAM. Upgrading them to 16 GB made a substantial difference for them. Then again, with Chrome taking up >4GB of R

by danudey 10y ago

Our artists at work were drowning with 8 GB of RAM. Upgrading them to 16 GB made a substantial difference for them. Then again, with Chrome taking up >4GB of RAM, they probably could have gotten half that performance just by closing their browser or using Safari.

gffrd 10y ago
KIDS THESE DAYS!
- gffrd 10y ago
  -2 points for making a joke about people running Chrome with a million tabs?? Rough crowd …
  - sctb 10y ago
    Please review the HN guidelines, which ask you both to comment civilly and to resist complaining about downvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
themodelplumber 10y ago
> Then again, with Chrome taking up >4GB of RAM, they probably could have gotten half that performance Can confirm. Got up to 15GB RAM usage today, before closing 30+ tabs to get back down to 7GB. Maybe it's ridiculous, but based on the information I'm needing from those tabs--100% text--it's infuriating. Oh, and also sitting awfully comfortably in that 7GB area is Dropbox, which is doing who knows what with all of its RAM...I do like the Linux command line tool though.
- brynjolf 10y ago
  I had same issue but at home where my work flow is different. My solution was to use the extension "The great suspender" which sleeps tabs that hasn't been used in a while. Might help you too.
- beedogs 10y ago
  Firefox is even worse. I caught it using 37GB virt the other day on Linux and a pretty significant chunk of RAM too. I don't even have 37GB of physical memory.
- deleted 10y ago
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newtonapple 10y ago
"Then again, with Chrome taking up >4GB of RAM, they probably could have gotten half that performance just by closing their browser or using Safari." This is so true. I've recently stopped using Chrome and switched to Safari. Now my 5-year old MacBook Pro runs like butter.
tmd83 10y ago
Browsers and web is frankly getting ridiculous. The modern web has a lot going for it but when moving the web forward people seem to completely forget about the efficiency argument. I wonder how much of the worlds power we waste casually like that.

by danudey 10y ago

gffrd 10y ago

KIDS THESE DAYS!

gffrd 10y ago
-2 points for making a joke about people running Chrome with a million tabs?? Rough crowd …
- sctb 10y ago
  Please review the HN guidelines, which ask you both to comment civilly and to resist complaining about downvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

themodelplumber 10y ago

> Then again, with Chrome taking up >4GB of RAM, they probably could have gotten half that performance Can confirm. Got up to 15GB RAM usage today, before closing 30+ tabs to get back down to 7GB. Maybe it's ridiculous, but based on the information I'm needing from those tabs--100% text--it's infuriating. Oh, and also sitting awfully comfortably in that 7GB area is Dropbox, which is doing who knows what with all of its RAM...I do like the Linux command line tool though.

brynjolf 10y ago
I had same issue but at home where my work flow is different. My solution was to use the extension "The great suspender" which sleeps tabs that hasn't been used in a while. Might help you too.
beedogs 10y ago
Firefox is even worse. I caught it using 37GB virt the other day on Linux and a pretty significant chunk of RAM too. I don't even have 37GB of physical memory.
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newtonapple 10y ago

"Then again, with Chrome taking up >4GB of RAM, they probably could have gotten half that performance just by closing their browser or using Safari." This is so true. I've recently stopped using Chrome and switched to Safari. Now my 5-year old MacBook Pro runs like butter.

tmd83 10y ago

Browsers and web is frankly getting ridiculous. The modern web has a lot going for it but when moving the web forward people seem to completely forget about the efficiency argument. I wonder how much of the worlds power we waste casually like that.