HACKER Q&A
📣 rco8786

Why is Chromium a memory hog? Why can't we fix it?


Hoping someone with some architectural knowledge of Chromium can jump in here. I am mainly asking out of curiosity, as other browsers don't seem to suffer from memory bloat in the same order of magnitude.

So, what is it about Chromium that causes it to suck up so much memory? What is difficult about fixing this?

As a further niche, I'm also interested in this from Electron's PoV.

  👤 ram-pasala Accepted Answer ✓
Recently we published an article on this - Why chrome consumes so much memory compared to other browsers. Do let me know if it was helpful! here is the link - https://blog.neverinstall.com/the-curious-case-of-chromes-co...
👤 night-rider
I have fairly capable machines that can handle Chrome. I don’t have several apps running in the background and prefer to just have a browser open so I can focus. 32GB RAM is sufficient, plus a fast SSD. You don’t get to complain when you have the right hardware. I can see why running Chrome on a Raspberry Pi would be a problem though.