Comment on Why GNU grep is FastparentComments−dagw16yOut of curiosity, how do you manage to make an IDE, Open Office and a browser eat through 12 gigs of RAM?−Zak16yThe stable version of Chrome leaks memory like crazy on Linux. I was frequently using over 1gb according to about:memory and have seen it use up to 3gb. 6.0.495.0 dev seems to be better about it.−jacquesm16yIt's really not that hard. One fair sized project and a bunch of browsers with tabs. It surprises me very much how much RAM that gobbles up.I'm not even testing stuff with VMs right now, as soon as I get in to that I have to shut down the IDE at a minimum or I'll hit the swap.
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Out of curiosity, how do you manage to make an IDE, Open Office and a browser eat through 12 gigs of RAM?
The stable version of Chrome leaks memory like crazy on Linux. I was frequently using over 1gb according to about:memory and have seen it use up to 3gb. 6.0.495.0 dev seems to be better about it.
It's really not that hard. One fair sized project and a bunch of browsers with tabs. It surprises me very much how much RAM that gobbles up.
I'm not even testing stuff with VMs right now, as soon as I get in to that I have to shut down the IDE at a minimum or I'll hit the swap.