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I have the same issue Try opening 25+ tabs in Chrome, and the whole system will slow to a crawl (with a measly ~3GB swap if you have 8GB RAM). Safari doesn't s
by concinds 4y ago
I have the same issue
Try opening 25+ tabs in Chrome, and the whole system will slow to a crawl (with a measly ~3GB swap if you have 8GB RAM). Safari doesn't seem to have this issue. Force Chrome to aggressively suspend tabs, and the issue goes away. The slowdown also happens to me when running lots of Electron apps, and consistently happens around 3GB swap (strange, considering how small 3GB is, and how fast the storage is on M1 Macs).
Might be a bug in Electron, in Chrome, or in how macOS manages memory (this 100% survives across reinstalls with minimal apps installed). Regardless, I hope Apple is looking into it, and tries to address it either with a macOS update or by working with Google et al.
- concinds 4y agoI take it back. Safari definitely does the same thing when you get to 3GB of swap. What's worse is that Apple has a pathological aversion to transparency and just can't admit this is a known issue and that a fix is coming, so we can only assume they don't know about this (this issue has existed for at least 2 years now).