Re:1060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud captured by...
by Abishek_Muthian on Monday April 15, 2019 @08:30AM
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I opened it in Chrome 73 & Preview on MacOS to see memory consumption on Activity Monitor.
When the full image was loaded up in Chrome, Chrome Helper showed up with ~1.30GB of memory consumption; it sometimes went up to 5.60 GB on repeated tests and quickly reverted to ~ 1.30 GB on average.
Preview consumed ~550MB at the beginning and further zooming /zooming out consumed ~250 MB at average.
Chrome, struggled a bit after clicking on Zoom. Preview gave a low resolution image when Zoom was clicked and then gave the original resolution. Preview's user experience was comparatively better.
Intel power gadget showed CPU spikes during these actions, but nominal GPU spikes; I don't think metal is being used in preview.
When the full image was loaded up in Chrome, Chrome Helper showed up with ~1.30GB of memory consumption; it sometimes went up to 5.60 GB on repeated tests and quickly reverted to ~ 1.30 GB on average.
Preview consumed ~550MB at the beginning and further zooming /zooming out consumed ~250 MB at average.
Chrome, struggled a bit after clicking on Zoom. Preview gave a low resolution image when Zoom was clicked and then gave the original resolution. Preview's user experience was comparatively better.
Intel power gadget showed CPU spikes during these actions, but nominal GPU spikes; I don't think metal is being used in preview.
Edit : RAM : 32GB, Core i5 7th Gen