[Ipg-smz] Help? I can no longer take Chrome's memory demands

Richi Jennings richi.jennings at richi.co.uk
Sun Sep 8 08:50:55 UTC 2019


Bob, how does the memory usage pattern manifest itself? Thrashing swap?
Excessive CPU usage?

Or is your concern purely the amount of paged-in RAM it's using? Those
measurements can of course be misleading. The old saw of, "Unused RAM is
wasted RAM," applies (although workstations need a bit of headroom, for
better perceived performance).

It's possible you have an extension or open tab that's causing a memory
leak. In Chrome, you can look to see what's hogging VM: Window |
TaskManager I think is how you get there on macOS. Sort by memory; kill the
hog tab(s); disable hog extension.

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On Sat, 7 Sep 2019, 7:01 pm Bob Reselman via Ipg-smz, <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
wrote:

> Hi:
>
> My main machine is a MacBook Pro with 16 GB RAM.
>
> When I run Chrome I can kiss at least 2 GB, maybe more, of memory goodbye.
>
> Sad to say that Chrome is mainstay for me: GDocs, GSheets, Grammarly etc.
>
> But I am really resentful that it hogs so much memory. Maybe it’s time for
> a new default browser.
>
> I am interested to learn the experience of others.
>
> Has anybody had this memory problem with Chrome? Do any of you use an
> alternative?
>
>
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