Friday, May 9, 2025

Memory Consumption

 This past week I happened to notice that Chrome will show a tab's memory use when the mouse pointer is on the top of a tab. My work email tab used something like 800 MB. When I checked just now, the memory consumed was 431 MB, which seems a lot but is less startling. On the other hand, the home page of the Gutenberg Project, when first opened, uses less than 30 MB; opening a book will considerably increase this.

 The machine on which I write this has 24 GB of memory--that 400 MB Gmail tab amounts to less than two percent of the machine's memory. Still it is interesting for one who grew up in the days when megabytes of RAM were few and expensive to see this.

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