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Iron runs5 services and takes 200Mb ram

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:22 am
by mrbambocha
Hi.
Wonder what causes iron to run 5 services and take 200 Mb ram when running 2 tabs, google.com and wikipedia.com?
I thought it should take less computer resoures then the other browsers.

Re: Iron runs5 services and takes 200Mb ram

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:48 am
by volvox
Did you install some extensions? Extensions run in seperate processes.

Re: Iron runs5 services and takes 200Mb ram

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:12 am
by bulek
Enter "about:memory" into URL box and see by yourself.

Re: Iron runs5 services and takes 200Mb ram

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:48 am
by mrbambocha
Exakt the same 8 tabs open. At 2 and 4 tabs firefox run at lower memory usage

Re: Iron runs5 services and takes 200Mb ram

Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:47 pm
by Carl
This link should help clear things up
http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/google ... d-bad.html
And several have tested chrome vs firefox and firefox wins the memory test

i was able to have over 200 tabs open in firefox, but in chrome/iron i'm not able to, about 120 tabs in iron but with that many open it gets slow ( lots of memory swapping, etc.. )
sigh.. 2 gb ram is just too little these days :(