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My web browsing seems to consume obscene quantities of ram (there was an interesting article a little while ago about how Adblock can eat 400mb _per iframe_) -b
by BuildTheRobots 12y ago
My web browsing seems to consume obscene quantities of ram (there was an interesting article a little while ago about how Adblock can eat 400mb _per iframe_) -but them I am one of those tab-hoarding types.
Ironically (incidentally) Facebook seems to be one of the worst offenders. If I sign into facebook and then forget to sleep my desktop, I can get back from a weekend away to find firefox has eaten 15gb of ram and a painful amount of swap. Chromium seemed to be just as bad last I tried it.
- Kurtz79 12y agoConsidering that nowadays every tab is basically an independent application (in Chrome, literally), if you have 20 tabs open is equivalent of having 20 separate applications open, it's kind of pointless complaining about RAM usage of the "web browser".
- freehunter 12y agoI just think it's odd to say because my development/gaming desktop was just upgraded to 8GB of RAM from 6GB a few months ago and I never close tabs or shut anything down until something crashes. So saying 8GB of RAM is only good enough for Facebook... you should see my Steam library that likes 8GB of RAM just fine. Maybe the problem isn't that Facebook takes 15GB of RAM, it's that Firefox or Chrome will take literally as much RAM as it can get. I should try surfing Facebook on the 128GB servers we have at work and report back my findings...