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by bubblewand 103 days ago
It’s great if you run max two “web apps” at a time. More, and it’s heading into “may be a problem” territory.

I’ve seen a Gmail tab eat 2.5Gb of memory all on its own… just sitting there. And you need some headroom for content and file caching and such to keep things feeling snappy.

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cache uses whatever you have
im sure that gmail tab is just casually caching gigabytes of email, just in case the user opens it.