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Probably because Chrome was built not to assume enormous amounts of RAM.

angulardementia 7y ago
Lol
Waterluvian 7y ago
My point is that when the resource is available, it can't be intelligently used? Heck, shouldn't you just let the OS call the shots and simply say, "I've got ephemeral data for you to keep warm."
- skywhopper 7y ago
  Sure, if the OS has an API for that. If it doesn't, then the Chrome developers have to figure out what to do.
  - Waterluvian 7y ago
    Isn't the API just storing in RAM and letting a page file do its thing?
    - seanmcdirmid 7y ago
      In a 64-bit only world, that isn’t a bad strategy. I would guess a lot of this is just legacy from having to or having had to support 32 bit OSes.
    - akelly 7y ago
      How do you make sure that the video doesn't push something far more important to the pagefile? Does windows have a way of telling it the priority of an item in memory, or do you have to trust a caching algorithm?
- clhodapp 7y ago
  You aren't wrong but this is also you get users who think that Chrome uses all your RAM even if you have a huge amount...
kzrdude 7y ago
It sure seems capable of gobbling it all up (Linux, 16 GB RAM, which is no longer an enormous amount..)
- beatgammit 7y ago
  Compiling a game engine (Unreal) seems to use less RAM than browsing the web...
  - ygra 7y ago
    The linker, though ...
rasz 7y ago
Is that why its using ~150MB per open TAB while Opera 12.x used 15MB on same websites? :) Lets not kid ourselves.
voldacar 7y ago
Lol chrome routinely takes up 100+MB per tab
goatinaboat 7y ago
Regularly see Chrome tabs >1Gb. What am I running in them? Jira.
- eitland 7y ago
  You are not a alone and Jira is not the only offender. Maybe we should introduce sone kind of certification for developers of publically available software? Or point out the climate issues: the way you do this multiplied with the number of users who use it means x tons of CO2 released pr years in addition to annoying tye users. To add insult to injury it also means your users will have to replace their hardware more frequently than otherwise necessary. I'm only partially joking here. Im so tired of machines that should be 500 - 1000 times more powerful or more than my old PC from the nineties still being slow, and I blame it mostly on antivirus (on Windows) as well as various web technologies that are misused (on all platforms).
- Waterluvian 7y ago
  Jira may not be the best example. It's absolute slow, crufty garbage of a web product. It's possibly the slowest, crustiest website I visit each day.
  - beatgammit 7y ago
    Slack and Google Docs are also pretty bad.
    - jsymolon 7y ago
      And raise you, Service Now.

Lol

My point is that when the resource is available, it can't be intelligently used? Heck, shouldn't you just let the OS call the shots and simply say, "I've got ephemeral data for you to keep warm."

skywhopper 7y ago
Sure, if the OS has an API for that. If it doesn't, then the Chrome developers have to figure out what to do.
- Waterluvian 7y ago
  Isn't the API just storing in RAM and letting a page file do its thing?
  - seanmcdirmid 7y ago
    In a 64-bit only world, that isn’t a bad strategy. I would guess a lot of this is just legacy from having to or having had to support 32 bit OSes.
  - akelly 7y ago
    How do you make sure that the video doesn't push something far more important to the pagefile? Does windows have a way of telling it the priority of an item in memory, or do you have to trust a caching algorithm?
clhodapp 7y ago
You aren't wrong but this is also you get users who think that Chrome uses all your RAM even if you have a huge amount...

kzrdude 7y ago

It sure seems capable of gobbling it all up (Linux, 16 GB RAM, which is no longer an enormous amount..)

beatgammit 7y ago
Compiling a game engine (Unreal) seems to use less RAM than browsing the web...
- ygra 7y ago
  The linker, though ...

rasz 7y ago

Is that why its using ~150MB per open TAB while Opera 12.x used 15MB on same websites? :) Lets not kid ourselves.

voldacar 7y ago

Lol chrome routinely takes up 100+MB per tab

goatinaboat 7y ago

Regularly see Chrome tabs >1Gb. What am I running in them? Jira.

eitland 7y ago
You are not a alone and Jira is not the only offender. Maybe we should introduce sone kind of certification for developers of publically available software? Or point out the climate issues: the way you do this multiplied with the number of users who use it means x tons of CO2 released pr years in addition to annoying tye users. To add insult to injury it also means your users will have to replace their hardware more frequently than otherwise necessary. I'm only partially joking here. Im so tired of machines that should be 500 - 1000 times more powerful or more than my old PC from the nineties still being slow, and I blame it mostly on antivirus (on Windows) as well as various web technologies that are misused (on all platforms).
Waterluvian 7y ago
Jira may not be the best example. It's absolute slow, crufty garbage of a web product. It's possibly the slowest, crustiest website I visit each day.
- beatgammit 7y ago
  Slack and Google Docs are also pretty bad.
  - jsymolon 7y ago
    And raise you, Service Now.