Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
MCBastos wrote:
Beauregard T. Shagnasty told the world:
The reason I asked is because your half-gigabyte is way far and above
what I get from a similar number of tabs. If one is checking memory
used by *tabs*, one does not normally load up a dozen different pages
filled with images and videos which will skew the results. My testing
page for this experiment was a simple local page of about 4 KB, opened
a dozen times and resulting in less than a tenth of your version.
OK, just to give something reproducible:
I have a set of tabs I open daily to check my comics. Those are:
<snip>
13 pages, all containing images, some of them containing several images,
some of them containing ads and other crap (although NoScript blocks
quite a bit of those). Plus Seamonkey Mail, plus the message editor
(Composer) where I'm writing this very post.
Windows Task Manager reports 326868 K for Seamonkey plus 27824 K for
plugin-container.
About:memory gives this:
Explicit Allocations
265.52 MB (100.0%) -- explicit
<snip>
Thanks to you and Daniel for the test. This seems to prove that the
amount of RAM in use is more-or-less dependent on *what pages* are loaded
in the ~12 tabs, and not actually any kind of fault of the browser or the
tabs themselves. If one loads pages containing lots of unknown images of
various file sizes and other multimedia, the memory usage will be high.
Keep in mind, too, that any pages that have that silly Facebook "Like"
button, there's another over-a-quarter-megabyte of JavaScript, each.
As I said, my test involved a dozen tabs each with a small ~4KB page (no
images, only text and links), and the total amount of RAM used by
SeaMonkey was ~50MB. I don't see a browser issue here.
Beauregard, just for a further test, so you would know how much
graphics, etc, is loaded in the viewed pages, I just opened twelve tabs
all addressed to http://www.seamonkey-project.org/. vsize 668MB ......
which is roughly the same as what I was getting for my earlier three tabs!!
--
Daniel
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