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echo: rberrypi
to: MIKE POWELL
from: A. DUMAS
date: 2020-11-15 22:26:00
subject: Re: Raspberry 400

Mike Powell  wrote:
>> Every process can use 4 (I think it's 3 in practice?) GiB. In
>> Chrome/Chromium, every tab is a separate process. So if you regularly
>> open a lot of tabs with huge content ... then 8 GiB might be beneficial
>> even on 32-bit RaspiOS.
>
> I believe that it is more correct to say "every tab is at least one
> separate process."  I had Chromium and top both open yesterday.  I had one
> tab open and brought up wunderground.com.  There were 8-10 chromium-browser
> processes that suddenly popped up and remained persistent until I closed
> the browser.

Sure, it's a good multithreaded app. But I imagine there is ultimately one
root process per tab that has to accumulate stuff from all the others and
build the page as a monolithic data structure. I don't know.

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