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On a related note, i once came across the notion that free memory isn't doing anything for you. It's kind of obvious and does not at all explain chromium's lo
by Beldin 6y ago
On a related note, i once came across the notion that free memory isn't doing anything for you.
It's kind of obvious and does not at all explain chromium's lower bound of memory usage. But: if Chromium runs better with more memory and no other process is using it: please take it!
That is what it's there for, after all.
- gibolt 6y agoThis is fine, until another application needs it. Then it becomes a power struggle for the throne, and both sides lose.
- Dylan16807 6y agoIf it would actually detect that, it could be great. But I have a chromebook with 4GB of ram, and it often struggles to keep a particular set of 3 expensive tabs open because it runs out. It's definitely not reacting to memory pressure by being less greedy.
- plerpin 6y agoYour pages might have huge JS heaps allocated or contain supersampled assets.
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- vbezhenar 6y agoThat's not correct for any modern OS. Free memory is used as a disk cache, so your computer is significantly faster with more free memory. Well, not as significantly now, with SSD everywhere, but still faster.