Chrome uses 4GB of RAM

[silentmelodies]

My friend claims on his Windows 7 PC Chrome uses 4GB of ram while casually browsing a dozen of tabs. I tried to replicate, on Linux.

 

Yeah....every tab has the LTT General Discussion open in it, fully loaded. I think it is more efficient on Linux than on Windows.
 Here it is at idle.

 

So judge by yourself. I think Linux has superior memory management to Windows.

How does your Chrome workload look like? This is Chrome 48

[Arty]

You complaining it using 4GB of ram and you have a billion tabs open.

 

 

Also Keep in mind chrome might be handling things differently on linux.

It may not be cached in the ram.

 

 

This is not a good comparison at all

 

 

Windows 7 is a 5 year old os+
 

 

you only have 3GB of ram

 

How much total did he have

 

 

Chrome does scale ram usage as you have more ram. 

 

 

2 many variables which were not considered 

 

 

 

 

 

my system

 

windows 10

6GB ram

Chrome uses 750MB-1GB of RAM

with 5-10 Tabs and 7 Heavy Extensions. 

[silentmelodies]

You complaining it using 4GB of ram and you have a billion tabs open.

 

 

Also Keep in mind chrome might be handling things differently on linux.

It may not be cached in the ram.

 

 

This is not a good comparison at all

 

 

Windows 7 is a 5 year old os+

I was trying to see how much tabs i need to open to match his claims.

[Arty]

I was trying to see how much tabs i need to open to match his claims.

No matter how hard you push a Prius 

your not gonna catch a Tesla

[Donut417]

Ive seen Chrome use a massive amount of Ram. To my understanding everything in Chrome runs in a separate space in memory. In my case I like to have many videos open and buffered. Plus you have to add on things like flash, and any other add on for that matter. Then there is the fact you have eleventy billion tabs open. 

[GlassBomb]

I was trying to see how much tabs i need to open to match his claims.

 

I currently have 15 tabs open, and I'm using up over 4GB's of RAM. The reason why Chrome is such a memory hog is because of how it stores a crapton in RAM.

[silentmelodies]

 

Windows 7 is a 5 year old os+

 

 

you only have 3GB of ram

Its better if it is older, Windows 8/10 have more uselsess shit running in the background compared to 7

I use swap, look at picture, 1.2GB of swap

[silentmelodies]

I currently have 15 tabs open, and I'm using up over 4GB's of RAM. The reason why Chrome is such a memory hog is because of how it stores a crapton in RAM.

I have around 150 open, or more, and match that. Wow.

[don_svetlio]

Chome using *ONLY* 4GB of RAM is quite impressive actually

[Arty]

Its better if it is older, Windows 8/10 have more uselsess shit running in the background compared to 7

I use swap, look at picture, 1.2GB of swap

windows 10 uses less ram then 7 lol

[Dzzope]

Was using 7GB for chrome last night with 43 tabs open..

[GlassBomb]

I have around 150 open, or more, and match that. Wow.

 

It's not how many you have open. But more what you are doing within each tab. I just now added on a few more tabs of Twitch/YouTube, and instantly shoot up over 600MB's of RAM usage.

 

PS. Pressing Shift+Esc will open up Chrome's own task manager, and you can go to the 'Stats for nerds' page from there. Or here's a direct link for it.

 

chrome://memory-redirect/

 

(Directly linking it didn't work, so just copy/paste that into the browser)

[Gumi Rokkaku]

If you have a good amount of ram, it doesn't matter. Some programs will scale depending on how much memory you have. So if he's got 8GB of ram, why does he care if chrome is using half of it? It's actually a good thing. Would you rather have Chrome constantly swapping data in and out of memory? Your performance would go right into the crapper.

 

High memory usage isn't a problem unless you don't have enough of it.
Empty memory is useless.

[PlayStation 2]

Coming from someone who uses 10+ tabs of Chrome regularly on Windows 7, I've never seen the whole thing go over 1280MB of RAM, much less 4096.