Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:52PM
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Yeah, it depends on what exactly you're asking for. But one can provide different visualizations for different questions.
As a typical computer user, this is what I care about:
- who the frak is eating all my RAM?
- which processes should I kill to get some memory back?
Whatever the weird sharing things are going on, the memory is ultimately linear. So show me a large rectangle subdivided into sections, each one representing memory associated with a set of processes. One section for "this memory is used by Chrome.exe". One for "this memory is used by Chrome.exe, X.exe and Y.exe". One for "this memory is free".
When I click on a section, it should highlight all the processes that share this memory. When I click on a process, it should highlight all the sections this process uses or shares with others.
This way, I could quickly see who's wasting my RAM and how many processes do I need to kill to get some chunk of memory back.
As a typical computer user, this is what I care about:
- who the frak is eating all my RAM?
- which processes should I kill to get some memory back?
Whatever the weird sharing things are going on, the memory is ultimately linear. So show me a large rectangle subdivided into sections, each one representing memory associated with a set of processes. One section for "this memory is used by Chrome.exe". One for "this memory is used by Chrome.exe, X.exe and Y.exe". One for "this memory is free".
When I click on a section, it should highlight all the processes that share this memory. When I click on a process, it should highlight all the sections this process uses or shares with others.
This way, I could quickly see who's wasting my RAM and how many processes do I need to kill to get some chunk of memory back.