chromium memory conumption on x86_64

[Benjamin Kerensa]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Enrico Weigelt <enrico.weigelt at vnc.biz>wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> some time ago, when I've moved my notebook (4GB RAM),
> from 32bit gentoo to 64bit ubuntu, I've noticed a big
> increase in memory consumption.
>
> I haven't had a chance for deeper look at the code, but
> my suspicion is that a lot of objects (eg. vectors, etc)
> are doubled in size.
>
> Is anyone else already working on this topic ?
>
>
> cu
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You have not mentioned what build of chromium you ran on Gentoo versus
Ubuntu but one thing to consider is that right now Ubuntu does not have a
full time maintainer for the Chromium packaged so updates are still lagging
a bit. (we should probably just sync from debian?)



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