Google chrome memory issue fixed.

[jos]

Chrome has something of a memory problem -- it will gobble up resources like they are going out of fashion. revealed by Google's François Beaufort, the Chrome development team is working on solving this issue. The solution is available in "Canary" version of Chrome. The Discarded Tabs feature works by unloading tabs from memory when resources are running low, and reloading them if and when they are next clicked. If you install the latest nightly builds, this is already available to you.

Chrome has a tab ranking system, and it would automatically suspend your "least interesting" tabs when it hits a low-memory situation.

1. Internal pages like new tab page, bookmarks, etc.
2. Tabs selected a long time ago
3. Tabs selected recently
4. Tabs playing audio
5. Apps running in a window
6. Pinned tabs
7. The selected tab

To enable tab discarding, pay a visit to chrome://flags/#enable-tab-discarding and click the Enable link. That's pretty much all there is to it! You do have the option of taking manual control of discarding tabs by visiting chrome://discards/, so you may want to bookmark that page for future reference.

 

 

Finally.. but i cannot see this as the solution for the problem. this will slow things a bit when opening old tabs

 

Source: http://betanews.com/2015/08/01/chrome-has-a-hidden-tab-discard-option-that-could-solve-your-memory-problems/

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/chrome-tests-discarding-background-tabs-to-save-memory/

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/tab-discarding-and-reloading

[Albatross]

Not a very good solution.

 

Still ain't going Chrome.

[terrytek]

If only Firefox had something like this... It uses as much as 3 gigs in one session

[othertomperson]

That's not the problem though. The problem is that I only have three tabs open, but for some reason that involves seven different instances of Chrome running, each using about 100MB RAM. 700MB for three tabs, you can see how it accumulates with more!

 

 

If only Firefox had something like this... It uses as much as 3 gigs in one session

 

Firefox will use the 2-4GB a 32-bit process can address and then crash. Chrome will just keep using more and more until you run out. I've had Chrome use six gigs at a time before.

[Accursed Entity]

16gb RAM user here... prepared for Chrome(64 bit)... had 25+ open tabs, a couple of videos at the same time and so on... checks Chrome usage... it never goes pass 3gb.  

[Misanthrope]

16gb RAM user here... prepared for Chrome(64 bit)... had 25+ open tabs, a couple of videos at the same time and so on... checks Chrome usage... it never goes pass 3gb. >

 

Not totally useless though: 8gb here and I've been seeing some memory leaking on Witcher 3 so after 2 or 3 hours of gameplay I start sending stuff to page file and eventually crash (I limit my page file size since it runs off the ssd and I don't want to put too much on it) however this does not happen if I just close chrome.

 

Don't like to since I like to keep youtube playing videos simultaneously so I just have to save, close and reopen witcher 3 every 2 hours or so (sooner on some intense places like Novigrad) 

[Curufinwe_wins]

Preventing it from preloading/loading in background basically solves the issue for people with very hard recourse limits. This is only relevant for people that have high limits and occasionally high usage.

[Snickerzz]

That's not the problem though. The problem is that I only have three tabs open, but for some reason that involves seven different instances of Chrome running, each using about 100MB RAM. 700MB for three tabs, you can see how it accumulates with more!

 

 

 

Firefox will use the 2-4GB a 32-bit process can address and then crash. Chrome will just keep using more and more until you run out. I've had Chrome use six gigs at a time before.

every tab and app/extenstion is treat as a seperate process. That way if one tab crashes it wont kill the whole thing like IE or maybe FF, but i dont use FF so im not 100% on that

[Sidiox]

What.... This means chrome is now useless for me. I want it to keep everything in memory since I have low bandwidth so it's better to just have stuff open. And I don't care about ram. I've had chrome use more tha8GB,with about 200 tabs. But I might switch to Edge anyway, it's a nice browser as well

[Master Disaster]

Chrome is trash.

The garbage uses RAM even when its closed, why the fuck do I need 3 different tray icons and 4 copies of the chrome.exe process open when I have the browser closed?

The idea of treating each tab as a separate process sounds great on paper but when you get into the logistics of resource management you soon realise its just a stupid idea, each tab is effectively a whole new browser running on your system so in essence you don't have 7 tabs open, you have chrome running 7 times, plus the 3 other instances for the tray icons. Things get ugly very quickly.

The fix is useless, you still have multiple instances of the browser running in its entirety all using RAM and other resources.

Edge is looking really good so far, it has its issues but I'm confident MS will fix them given time.

[Syntaxvgm]

So making it clunkier is the only solution? 

Good god google, I have 10 GB of memory is Chrome, 3GB in firefox atm. AND I HAVE MORE SHIT OPEN IN FIREFOX! 

(Yes. 10GB. I keep shit open for days.)

[Fetzie]

How about a proper fix, not just "we will unload stuff you haven't looked at in a few minutes"?

[deviant88]

So much fanboys wars on this thread. Tell me more how firefox is better than chrome and viceversa.

The memory usage is not what makes a browser better(unless its memory leak which is not the case) its the overall experience.

Both firefox and chrome "trade blows" and have little negatives to them, chrome using the most memory from all browsers i know.Unless you have low ram like 2GB or you wanna talk about phone browsers then it doesnt matter(unless its a memory leak problem not a usage problem).

For me the browser with best youtube experience wins,which is chrome, i cant stand firefox still using flash player on youtube.Untill they convert to 100% html5 i wont use it.

[Syntaxvgm]

So much fanboys wars on this thread. Tell me more how firefox is better than chrome and viceversa.

The memory usage is not what makes a browser better(unless its memory leak which is not the case) its the overall experience.

Both firefox and chrome "trade blows" and have little negatives to them, chrome using the most memory from all browsers i know.Unless you have low ram like 2GB or you wanna talk about phone browsers then it doesnt matter(unless its a memory leak problem not a usage problem).

For me the browser with best youtube experience wins,which is chrome, i cant stand firefox still using flash player on youtube.Untill they convert to 100% html5 i wont use it.

They don't trade blows, trust me. They are both terrible fucking bloated browsers that are just carcasses of how great they used to be. Especially firefox. 

[TheGosuStandard]

Lately I've just been getting "He's dead Jim" broken tabs & extensions.

[Mew]

I wonder what the performance difference would be compared to swapping to disk. 

 

Lately I've just been getting "He's dead Jim" broken tabs & extensions.

 

Same, it's so annoying. 

[deviant88]

Lately I've just been getting "He's dead Jim" broken tabs & extensions.

Make sure you dont have beta/canary builds those are the ones who crash use the stable version, check at about tab in options.If it says beta or canary reinstall.

Here select the Stable 32 or 64 bit http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel/ 

 

Forget about memory usage what the hell they  did in chrome 46 Canary cause its so fucking faster, loading some pages especially on youtube so smooth and instant.I hope they did some improvements in there and this comes to stable channel later cause i love it

[xAcid9]

 

Glad i switched to Opera over a year ago. Oh wait... 

[El_indian]

Lately I've just been getting "He's dead Jim" broken tabs & extensions.

 

huh. I thought it was my network adapter/ethernet cable/router. 

[spartaman64]

 

Glad i switched to Opera over a year ago. Oh wait... 

opera is basically skinned chromium

[TheGosuStandard]

Make sure you dont have beta/canary builds those are the ones who crash use the stable version, check at about tab in options.If it says beta or canary reinstall.

Here select the Stable 32 or 64 bit http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel/ 

 

Forget about memory usage what the hell they  did in chrome 46 Canary cause its so fucking faster, loading some pages especially on youtube so smooth and instant.I hope they did some improvements in there and this comes to stable channel later cause i love it

 

Isn't Version 44.0.2403.125 m the regular version?

[Husky]

I used to use Firefox but then I switched to Chrome and haven't looked back. I like Chrome more because it integrates with Google services a lot better than any other browser.

[Technous285]

opera is basically skinned chromium

Opera 15+ is reskinned Chromium, whilst having also thrown out everything USEFUL in Chromium as "nobody uses that!" before slowly reimplimenting basics like bookmarks as users jam it down Chopera Dev's throats that the stuff that was yanked from Chromium IS indeed stuff people use. Opera 12.17 is still the old Presto.

[Doobeedoo]

Haha, this is not a solution. Maybe actually do some actual good programming and not, this...

[othertomperson]

every tab and app/extenstion is treat as a seperate process. That way if one tab crashes it wont kill the whole thing like IE or maybe FF, but i dont use FF so im not 100% on that

 

A sensible idea, but if you're looking for reasons as to why its RAM usage is astronomical, this is it.