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I know theres alot of chrome but when i shut them all down i only gain about 5% of my Mem back

 

have you disabled Chrome's run in background 'feature'??

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have you disabled Chrome's run in background 'feature'??

You my friend are the best! Disable running in background and restarted, now i only have 11% mem usage. Thanks so much!!

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You my friend are the best! Disable running in background and restarted, now i only have 11% mem usage. Thanks so much!!

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You my friend are the best! Disable running in background and restarted, now i only have 11% mem usage. Thanks so much!!

 

npnp...

 

and this, ladies and gents, is why I avoid Chrome whenever possible...

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Friends don't let friends use Chrome.

 

 

npnp...

 

and this, ladies and gents, is why I avoid Chrome whenever possible...

 

Never had any issue with chrome that I couldn't solve by disabling an ad-in, and I've been using it pretty much for 5+ years now, on different OS (linux Mint, ubuntu, WXP, W7 and W8.1) and computers (2 laptops and 2 desktops).

 

That being said if that really was the problem there's still something wrong with the chrome installation, as it really shouldn't be using that much RAM. I've never seen it being such a big problem.

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Never had any issue with chrome that I couldn't solve by disabling an ad-in, and I've been using it pretty much for 5+ years now, on different OS (linux Mint, ubuntu, WXP, W7 and W8.1) and computers (2 laptops and 2 desktops).

 

That being said if that really was the problem there's still something wrong with the chrome installation, as it really shouldn't be using that much RAM. I've never seen it being such a big problem.

 

Im guessing OP keeps a lot of tabs open on chrome, then just closes the window...

 

Chrome tends to keep all those tabs in the background until you call them again... which makes the browser perform fast... but at the cost of greater resource consumption...

 

Might just be a difference in use case or a broken or outdated installation as you have said...

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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Im guessing OP keeps a lot of tabs open on chrome, then just closes the window...

 

Chrome tends to keep all those tabs in the background until you call them again... which makes the browser perform fast... but at the cost of greater resource consumption...

 

Might just be a difference in use case or a broken or outdated installation as you have said...

 

But it reloads all that stuff back into ram upon system startup as well?  OP said restarting didn't help his problem.  That seems really odd, or really bad programming on chrome's part.  I wonder if chrome has something in there so that once you hit a certain threshold like 90% usage it starts freeing up some system ram.  If so than it probably doesn't hurt to keep it enabled.

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But it reloads all that stuff back into ram upon system startup as well?  OP said restarting didn't help his problem.  That seems really odd, or really bad programming on chrome's part.  I wonder if chrome has something in there so that once you hit a certain threshold like 90% usage it starts freeing up some system ram.  If so than it probably doesn't hurt to keep it enabled.

 

I think so... I disabled it the moment i noticed it since I've only got 4GB on my laptop and 8 on my desktop and I use lots of RAM-heavy stuff...

 

(sorry OP and mods for discussing further in a solved thread)

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CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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The lesson learned chrome is fast but be aware it uses memory to enhance its speed...

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