No matter how many other programs I am running, when I open task manager it always seems like Chrome is at 1000 or 2000+ MB of memory usage, whereas everything else barely hits 500MB
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OP, you confuse the good old e-penis race (who has more RAM, the better CPU, the more powerful component, etc), with actual everyday comfortable performance.
In the old days, when RAM was a spare resource, it was fundamentally good to only use as little as possible of it. It remained an acquired thought.
Nowadays, unless you work in a field where RAM consumption remains massive (such as video editing), the default Anon has a PC with tons of RAM, more than necessary.
And in this context of abundant spare RAM, the common sense is to make use of that RAM. If your browser is allowed to use a ton of RAM, it will have tons of resources and contents readily available instantly.
It will work faster, will respond without lag or delay, it will be more comfortable for you.
To give you an example, I host several websites on a dedicated server, and I fined-tuned several parameters so that MORE memory is consumed, why not after all, it is available, why let it go unused.
Okay, still, the browser has to be properly coded and liberate memory too, but that wasn’t the question here.
How about why Chrome stays resident after you close it, too? I have to go into System Settings and shut down Chrome (and MS Edge, which is built on the Chromium engine) every time I use it because it sucks down memory like a drunk at an open bar.
I swear that once my memory usage gets above 50%, my system slows to a crawl….
::Yes, I know this is a question instead of a comment, but I want to know why Chrome’s such a memory hog, too – I have a Win10 PC w/16 GB RAM, and I have to go through Task Manager closing out unneeded applications so I can run Premiere, Photoshop, games, sometimes even Acrobat or Word!::
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