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As an aside, if someone only runs a web browser on his machine (and maybe a few other programs that aren't resource intensive) then using as much RAM as possib
by 908B64B197 6y ago
As an aside,
if someone only runs a web browser on his machine (and maybe a few other programs that aren't resource intensive) then using as much RAM as possible sounds like the correct tradeoff since unlike CPU, RAM has the same power budget whether used or not (so it is worth it to cache results).
The alternative would be to page to disk, but that would hurt responsiveness. If nothing else requests the RAM you are better off keeping tabs alive.
- smoldesu 6y agoSure, but ideally we should be writing software that erases technical debt, not shifting it. To my understanding, the system you're suggesting is actually how Chrome manages it's tabs: it will let you open whatever you want until memory is constrained, at which point it will kill/compress the biggest offenders to keep things snappy.