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I just did a test, checking RAM usage before/after closing Chrome (which has 8 tabs open, three of which are Google apps and three of which are Jira, so pretty

I just did a test, checking RAM usage before/after closing Chrome (which has 8 tabs open, three of which are Google apps and three of which are Jira, so pretty heavyweight). It's using 2.8GB

dijit 4y ago
Always reserve about 2G for macOS/Windows and about 1G for a desktop variant of linux. For example "WindowServer" on my Mac is using 1.22G at the moment by itself. For Chrome tabs: 95MB static cost per tab; some sites load a lot of data: console.cloud.google.com takes 1GiB of ram for me; LinkedIn takes about 700MiB Jira, Confluence, Google Cloud Console, Slack and Gmail on my machine consume 4GiB when running simultaneously. That's before I have things like teams, onedrive/dropbox, docker or an IDE. I don't think 16G is too little, but I could see how there's a potential there to run out quite easily.
zigzag312 4y ago
4.4 GB currently for 18 tabs here. Just a few Github and documentation pages open. Nothing heavy. PS: Then I opened another 3 tabs (of YT videos) and it jumped to 5.2 GB.
- unglaublich 4y ago
  Chrome and other modern browsers tune their memory usage taking the current memory pressure into account. If you _have_ a lot of RAM available, why not use it? On a 4GB machine, Chrome will _not_ use 5.2 GB for 3 YT videos and a bit of GitHub.
  - zigzag312 4y ago
    How is priority of memory usage managed between 10 different apps using that kind of allocation policy? I have never seen Chrome starting to use much less memory when memory pressure becomes high and I have been monitoring it many times. There is some GC like behavior releasing a small amount of memory from time to time, but nothing really significant when systems starts running out of avaliable physical memory.
- brundolf 4y ago
  I don't think YouTube videos are really representative of web memory usage, because a significant amount of the memory they take up will be the buffered video content itself

I just did a test, checking RAM usage before/after closing Chrome (which has 8 tabs open, three of which are Google apps and three of which are Jira, so pretty heavyweight). It's using 2.8GB

dijit 4y ago

Always reserve about 2G for macOS/Windows and about 1G for a desktop variant of linux. For example "WindowServer" on my Mac is using 1.22G at the moment by itself. For Chrome tabs: 95MB static cost per tab; some sites load a lot of data: console.cloud.google.com takes 1GiB of ram for me; LinkedIn takes about 700MiB Jira, Confluence, Google Cloud Console, Slack and Gmail on my machine consume 4GiB when running simultaneously. That's before I have things like teams, onedrive/dropbox, docker or an IDE. I don't think 16G is too little, but I could see how there's a potential there to run out quite easily.

zigzag312 4y ago

4.4 GB currently for 18 tabs here. Just a few Github and documentation pages open. Nothing heavy. PS: Then I opened another 3 tabs (of YT videos) and it jumped to 5.2 GB.

unglaublich 4y ago
Chrome and other modern browsers tune their memory usage taking the current memory pressure into account. If you _have_ a lot of RAM available, why not use it? On a 4GB machine, Chrome will _not_ use 5.2 GB for 3 YT videos and a bit of GitHub.
- zigzag312 4y ago
  How is priority of memory usage managed between 10 different apps using that kind of allocation policy? I have never seen Chrome starting to use much less memory when memory pressure becomes high and I have been monitoring it many times. There is some GC like behavior releasing a small amount of memory from time to time, but nothing really significant when systems starts running out of avaliable physical memory.
brundolf 4y ago
I don't think YouTube videos are really representative of web memory usage, because a significant amount of the memory they take up will be the buffered video content itself