Saturday, September 20, 2008

Google Chrome Memory Usage - Good and Bad

A lot of smart people are doing some serious tire kicking on Google Chrome. Now with several days of testing under their belts, we're seeing many observations about Google Chrome's memory usage. I've just posted a techie document about memory over on the developer website as an initial brain-dump of our current thinking about memory usage within Google Chrome. This article is a quick summary.

Measuring memory

If you're measuring memory in a multi-process application like Google Chrome, don't forget to take into account shared memory. If you add the size of each process via the Windows XP task manager, you'll be double counting the shared memory for each process. If there are a large number of processes, double-counting can account for 30-40% extra memory size.

To make it easy to summarize multi-process memory usage, Google Chrome provides the "about:memory" page which includes a detailed breakdown of Google Chrome's memory usage and also provides basic comparisons to other browsers that are running.

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