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Re:Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from... by lern_too_spel on Monday September 22, 2014 @04:10PM (#8352337)
Because the tab you're using has barfed its data all over the heap, so you can't keep all its data paged into main memory. Its data is mixed together with the other tabs' data.
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Re:Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from... by taeric on Monday September 22, 2014 @04:42PM (#8352519)
At face value, I don't see why this should necessarily be the case. That is, why would a tab "barf its data all over the heap?" More directly, why couldn't, as the sibling said, this have been addressed with a different allocation mechanism.

I'm assuming this has come up a fair bit. Any good links to read up on this?

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