[lug] Chrome memory requirements

[Quentin Hartman]

Also, I've started using Firefox Developer Edition, and it's pretty great.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

Haven't quite switched to it as my daily driver, but it's making a
compelling argument so far.

QH

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 11:27 AM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some relevant info: https://lifehacker.com/why-chrome-uses-so-much-
> freaking-ram-1702537477
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:
>
>> I mentioned earlier that Chrome somehow manages to consume all of the
>> memory on my system with 48 GB... I brought up the task manager and even
>> processes with just a few relatively simple pages were consuming 200+ MB.
>> Several of the processes consumed over 1 GB.
>>
>> I have no idea where this memory is going. Looking at the task manager on
>> other systems it feels like it just determines the total amount of memory
>> in the system and divides by 20 or something and then grabs it. I'm sure
>> it's not that simple but WTF is that memory going?
>>
>> Bear
>>
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