Ask HN: Why does Chrome use 100+ mb of memory per tab?

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	Ask HN: Why does Chrome use 100+ mb of memory per tab?
	8 points by Uptrenda 15 days ago

3 comments

bitpush 15 days ago

Isnt chrome doing process isolation per tab? The cost of RAM comes with strict security guarantees.

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khurs 14 days ago

Its google, they are probably allocating 99mb to make sure adverts are displaying for max revenue and tracking is being sent by the truck load.

And 1mb for the page content.

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coalstartprob2 15 days ago

are you ram poor come on

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Uptrenda 15 days ago

we went to the moon with 15 kb of ram. 15 kb. There's no way that chrome needs to use that many resources per tab. Something terrible has gone wrong there.

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coalstartprob2 15 days ago

then try to make a browser with 15kb of ram

those c++ engineers know what theyre doing, and at times they seem like they dont, im pretty sure there were some sensible tradeoffs at play

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