Chrome & memory useage...

[bob4432]

everybody talks about how bad ff is w/ memory useage, w/ chrome i have 3 tabs open and there are 4 entries into task manager of 22MB-45MB each. open the same 3 tabs in ff and it uses ~20% less memory.

it is like chrome uses a tab, but actually creates another instance of itself...wtf? why 40MB+ for entering this post/thread?

 

[0roo0roo]

er yea, chrome makes separate instances, it uses more ram but it increases reliability as each tab can be killed separately if it crashes.
that being said yes i use firefox...load up chrome with dozens of tabs and it gets ugly fast

 

[jkroeder]

for one thing, too many people see high memory usage and automatically think "OMG memory leak!" when it's not necessarily the case. I have most of the major browsers installed. They all routinely use over 100mb. I don't understand when some people complain when they do. You get a lot of complaints about memory usage there.

Multiple process browsers will always use a good chunk of memory. However, I find the difference between Chrome and Firefox is that while they both use a lot of memory, at least Chrome seems to release it much quicker and is of course a lot easier to deal with when having a problematic tab or plugin.

Fortunately, I never really have more than 10 tabs at a time.

 

[Nothinman]

it is like chrome uses a tab, but actually creates another instance of itself...wtf? why 40MB+ for entering this post/thread?

One of Chrome's main features is that each tab, plugin, etc is a separate process. There's probably a lot of shared pages between those processes though so the memory usage is going to be lower than it looks in task manager.

 

[bob4432]

after using ff for years, chrome does seem to be faster than ff. i have enough memory, but was wondering why i have read why people claimed chrome was lean when ff was getting bloated.

all-and-all, i am liking chrome.

 

[bob4432]

nothingman - on a side note - what debian distro should i try out in a vm enviornment? been a win person way to long and want to get some other os's to mess around w/, if nothing else just for the experience.