Chrome memory leaks

[Yuriman]

Are memory leaks a known issue with Chrome? Is there a workaround or fix? I tend to leave tabs open for multiple days (or weeks, in the case of GVoice and Gmail) but I have to close and reopen Chrome every few days or it will eventually eat up all of my memory.

I'm using the latest stable build and I've had my tabs open for at least 3 or 4 days now. With 8 tabs (6 of them persistent) Chrome is using a total of 2.32GB of memory as reported via task manager. If I left them open longer it would continue to creep up until windows starts to throw VM and pagefile warnings.

EDIT: Closing and reopening Chrome results in a total memory usage of approximately 550MB with the same tabs.

 

[pyonir]

But I thought everyone switches to Chrome because of the (supposed) memory leaks in Firefox? That doesn't make any sense then....

 

[jkroeder]

I don't think so. At the same time, people often mistake memory leaks for just high memory usage.

You can add a button to the Chrome task manager that purges memory by adding the following to the Chrome shortcut.

--purge-memory-button

You'll get something like this

See if it helps.

 

[pcslookout]

My friend is having the same problem. Sooner or later all his memory is used.

 

[(sic)Klown12]

I use the dev builds of Chrome and haven't come across a memory leak. I usually have a least 6 tabs open at a time with Chrome running for days on end without issue. Try using another build and see if that helps at all, even the pre-release version have been extremely stable for me.