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Hi!
I noticed this a few days ago, when I turn on my computer plasma & background processes use around ~1.5GB of RAM. After using chromium for a while, and then closing it (no chromium background processes remain), RAM usage climbs up considerably, I've had all the way from 1 to 4 extra GB's of RAM being in use by nothing.
It's not cached memory either, that tends to climb up quite rapidly to the whole 6GB of memory, this is memory that Chromium isn't using anymore and no other applications seem to be able to access to, not even Chromium itself seems to use it as I noticed many times when my system froze with only a few tabs open and the whole RAM got filled up.
I found that doing 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' , while unintuitive, works freeing up the RAM to the usual ~1.5GB of usage.
I've tested this with and without extensions, I cleared its directory and reinstalled Chromium to no avail.
If anyone has any suggestions regarding this issue I would appreciate if you share them with me.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by LucetLux (2015-05-14 02:10:12)
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