Google Chrome resource hog?

[airdata]

I recently switched to chrome from firefox for my main browsing needs and have really liked chrome.

However... does chrome really need to have a process for each tab?

Right now i have a bunch of tabs opened. So in task manager i have 13 chrome.exe processes ranging from 18MB to 180MB using a total of 773MB out of my total 2GB of memory...

Is there any way to fix this? A web browser shouldn't be using that amount of resources.

 

[EagleKeeper]

On Win7 system
I have 8 processes with 3 Chrome tabs opened - total of 270M
5 IE9 tabs - 6 processes - total of 800M

 

[Maximilian]

I have found chrome to be very efficient with resources, i made a thread about it here an hour ago. In fact on further usage the difference between firefox and chrome on my netbook is staggering. With chrome it feels like im using a desktop again!

 

[Nothinman]

On Win7 system
I have 8 processes with 3 Chrome tabs opened - total of 270M
5 IE9 tabs - 6 processes - total of 800M

And you can't even just blindly add them up like that because there's going to be a significant amount of memory shared between the processes.

 

[EagleKeeper]

And you can't even just blindly add them up like that because there's going to be a significant amount of memory shared between the processes.

Applications sharing processes or the tabs sharing?

 

[DominionSeraph]

However... does chrome really need to have a process for each tab?

No, just as you don't really need to have a GUI, a mouse, a color display, or internet access.

http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/multi-process-architecture.html

Is there any way to fix this?

There's nothing to fix.

A web browser shouldn't be using that amount of resources.

Says you.

 

[DirkGently1]

I've had 250 Tabs open in Chrome across a dozen windows on my system, (that has 4GB of RAM), whilst simultaneously running a full Security Essentials scan and RTHDRIBL. Every single Chrome tab was as responsive to use as if it were the only one open.

It's a pretty decent Browser considering!

I was testing Hardware Acceleration, among other things!

 

[airdata]

http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/mul...hitecture.html

Ah, Thanks for posting that.

Says you.

Well, If I had 2GB and Chrome is using what... 40% memory, something is wrong w\ that. Unless as somebody else said some of that memory is overlapping

Not bashing chrome at all... I really like it. Just found it curious that half of my open processes are chrome.exe and each is using a chunk of memory.

 

[Nothinman]

Applications sharing processes or the tabs sharing?

Both.

 

[Chiropteran]

However... does chrome really need to have a process for each tab?

Yes. Monolithic single-process applications are a thing of the past, as they don't scale with multiple CPU cores. If a task can be efficiently broken into a new process, it absolutely should be done.

Well, If I had 2GB and Chrome is using what... 40% memory, something is wrong w\ that.

How do you figure? The memory used is highly dependent on the content being viewed. If you are viewing enough crap in all your tabs to add up to 800MB, Chrome is going to have to use 800MB+.

 

[86waterpumper]

compared to firefox or any other browser, chrome is a racehorse. I could care less how much memory it uses. It is responsive and fast and the program loads in a fifth of the time it takes others to open. Memory is cheap as can be right now, no reason at all to be running 2gb unless it's a netbook or something...plus alot of it depends on what webpage you are on, not so much the browser itself

 

[Envian]

Did you see the Chrome's built in task manager? You can open it by pressing Shift+ESC and see wich pages or plugins eat the most memory