[lug] Chrome memory requirements

[Quentin Hartman]

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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