Google Chrome sucks at freeing ram

[darxus]

This computer with 8gb ram keeps ending up swapping because of chrome.
I had 48 tabs open, with chrome using 4.2 gigs of ram, copied all the open urls to a file, closed chrome, started it, re-opened all the links, and memory is at 0.8 gigs of ram, in use. 19.0% of what it had been using.

Comments

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

That's a valid way of looking at it.

Ideally, I guess, Chrome would report which sites leak memory, and then advise you not to visit them anymore, or offer to break them when they exceed X megabytes.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Chrome has its own task manager, which you can get to by right clicking the title bar, or hitting shift-escape. Some of the tabs are somehow linked, I don't understand what's going on there.

[underwatercolor.livejournal.com]

When you "open in a new tab," Chrome tends to use one process for multiple tabs. I can think of some reasons why, but it's probably lame.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Probably sharing cache memory or something. But given their memory problems, it seems to currently be a terrible idea.