Wow! Hold right there. Chrome uses shared memory among it's spawned processes on all operating systems. If you use Task Manager (Windows) / Activity Monitor (O

Wow! Hold right there. Chrome uses shared memory among it's spawned processes on all operating systems. If you use Task Manager (Windows) / Activity Monitor (OSX) or something similar in Linux, you would see memory over-reported. Google for this: http://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+"shared+memory" http://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+"shared+memory" Some info: http://www.chromium.org/developers/memory-usage-backgrounder http://www.chromium.org/developers/memory-usage-backgrounder Some more info: http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/google-chrome-memory-usage-good-and-bad.html http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/google-chrome-memory-usage-... Best tool to see the memory usage is chrome itself: about://memory -> check the real sum at the end of the page.