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    Chrome the memory hog

    Anyone else suffering from Chrome's eternally growing VM usage? A quick google (ironically) suggests it's been a fairly common problem for some time and has something to do with Chrome's caching policy. As an indication of how ridiculous it is, I restarted chrome a couple of times yesterday. By the end of today's browsing, the VM Usage on my laptop was running at 1.29GB. I closed chrome, this dropped to 593MB, I then reopened Chrome (with the closing tabs restored) and it headed up to 843MB - a mere 450MB less memory to perform the same task

    Any clever tricks to stop this happening, or do I just need to restart chrome regularly?

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    Re: Chrome the memory hog

    what OS what spec is the hardware?
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Chrome the memory hog

    it's probably caching every single keystorke you make, so that Google own all the intellectual rights to it, in case you have a single moment of genius, invent something, or write something they might be able to sell....

    or am I just being fickle...?

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    Re: Chrome the memory hog

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    what OS what spec is the hardware?
    XP SP3, Mobile Core 2 Duo, 1GB DDR2.
    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post
    it's probably caching every single keystorke you make, so that Google own all the intellectual rights to it, in case you have a single moment of genius, invent something, or write something they might be able to sell....

    or am I just being fickle...?
    I've read even more tin-foil-hatted suggestions in my google for a solution to the issue

    The most common suggestion I've seen is that every page you visit is cached in memory. If this is true then it's caching a lot more in memory than on disk, as my userdata folder for chrome is only ~ 200MB. Looks not unreasonable though: I'm currently on my home laptop and the main chrome process on this is sitting at 256MB VM usage (plus all the other Chrome tabs each with their own memory usage, obviously). In fact, I've only got chrome open and my VM usage is north of 1GB I've recently upgraded this lappy to 2GB though, which is probably why I haven't noticed

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