Chrome really eats the memory

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  1. steve knight, Aug 9, 2011

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    on my 2009 mac mini every day or two I would need to close (end up having to kill) chrome to get it sped up and recover memory. seems about the same on my new min when I had 5 gigs of memory well just yesterday I made it 8 gigs and chrome has eaten about 3 or 4 gigs on its own with 14 tabs with nothing active open. seems pretty excessive to me.
     
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  2. Mackilroy, Aug 10, 2011

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    That is excessive – with eleven tabs open Chrome is using ~100MB of RAM on my desktop (out of 6GB). What build are you running?
     
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  3. steve knight, Aug 10, 2011

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    just have mail chrome and itunes running. plus little things like istat and logmein dropbox and such. it just seemed chrome went crazy. closing it down took care of it as usual.
     
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  4. wrldwzrd89, Aug 10, 2011

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    Which version of Chrome do you have? You can find out by going to the wrench and choosing About Google Chrome.
     
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  5. steve knight, Aug 10, 2011

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    the newest one. it is better nwo but it still seems to use about 200 megs per tab.
     
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  6. wordoflife, Aug 10, 2011

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    Chrome uses a lot of memory on my Mac too (not so much on Windows) when you add up all the "Google Chrome renderers" but I don't mind the tradeoff since i love Chrome features
     
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  7. animatedude, Jun 29, 2012

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    yes when i leave a few tabs open then go to sleep then wake up the next day, things gets slow....any idea how to change/fix this?
     
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  8. Dweez, Jun 29, 2012

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    200 meg per tab seems excessive. I use chrome almost exclusively and it opens with 17 tabs when launched.
     

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  9. Adomian, Jul 3, 2012

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    The memory may be used by extensions. Each extension you have can use more RAM.
     
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