One thing to remember though is that Chrome's architecture (tabs or groups of tabs as independent processes) is such that it will probably consume more memory and CPU load than a 'traditional' browser, one that treats the entire browser as one process, because of the greater overhead of running multiple processes.
The trade-off, of course, is better stability with the mulitiple processes architecture, at least in theory. I've switched back to Galeon temporarily, due to the instability of the most recent revision of Chrome (and the download problems of the previous revision), and have been struck by its low CPU load (typically less than 15%) and memory needs (~500MB for about 4x the number of tabs for which Chrome needed ~850MB RAM). It's not completely stable -- but it seems better than Chrome right now. That could change in the next revision of Chrome. One advantage of the single-process architecture MAY be the ability to recognize which tabs are in the background, and giving them low priority with respect to resources. In other words, the scripts on tabs I'm not looking at currently probably don't need to be running full-bore and consuming lots of CPU cycles -- a few % of CPU load should be sufficient. I don't know whether Chrome recognizes this and scales back the resources provided to the background tab processes the way Galeon seems to do. In any event, Galeon has the edge over Chrome in terms of resource footprint right now, and may be more appropriate for your system if it has limited CPU horsepower and/or RAM. Fx On Sep 18, 1:15 pm, Fx <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure about flags -- though of course, it'd probably be better > if you don't enable plugins and extensions -- but I use some of the > "zap" bookmarklets I found to reduce the CPU load on certain webpages > with a lot of extraneous Javascript. Doing so took my load down from > nearly 100% down to under 50%. > > The bookmarklets can be found > here:https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html > > On Sep 16, 10:20 am, Luying <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Anybody know which combination of flags I should switch on or off to > > minize ram and cpu usage on linux? > > > Luying --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
