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TheSpiceIsLife on March 11, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory...

If one tab uses about 100MB of memory then does two hundred tabs use 20GB of RAM?

You say you sometimes have "hundreds" of tabs open, I've done this too, but my laptop doesn't have 20GB of RAM, but it just seems to work anyway.

What I ended up doing was: just stop looking at resource monitors.

DennisP on March 11, 2018 [–]

I don't know but it eventually bogs down the computer. Fan starts running hard and everything's slow until I close down a bunch of tabs.

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