4 ms·
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
by 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 agoChrome 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 agoHow 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 agoI 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