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Superfluous RAM use hurts battery life a lot. Using Safari over Chrome easily saves 2+ hours for me.
by Outofthebot 12y ago
Superfluous RAM use hurts battery life a lot. Using Safari over Chrome easily saves 2+ hours for me.
- inclemnet 12y ago> Superfluous RAM use hurts battery life a lot Do you have a reference for why this should be? A quick search yields results suggesting only the opposite (for instance, https://superuser.com/questions/738848/does-more-ram-usage-cause-more-battery-usage https://superuser.com/questions/738848/does-more-ram-usage-c...).
- mitchty 12y agoMore ram in use generally means more javascript crap running. Which means higher cpu/energy use. Its not the memory use its what is using the memory.
- inclemnet 12y agoSo...the claim is that chrome runs a lot more javascript than safari?
- mitchty 12y agoI'll phrase it more that I see significantly more memory use in Chrome for long lived processes than I do with Safari. That said, eventually both get to 6g of ram in use and a restart is needed anyway.
- mitchty 12y agoI'll phrase it more that I see significantly more memory use in Chrome for long lived processes than I do with Safari. That said, eventually both get to 6g of ram in use and a restart is needed anyway.
- Zombieball 12y agoAh could point! I could even imagine scenarios about pre-fecthing content (say loading the next page that may never be viewed) and throwing it in RAM. Definitely would not be good for battery life. Cheers!