Almost 8GB of RAM to run the browser. This is fine?

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Windows

Good afternoon

Уже довольно продолжительное время меня время от времени терзал вопрос: почему во времена когда японские инженеры выпускают хуманоидов, Илон Маск гоняет по космосу Теслу - программисты до сих пор вероятно не могут оптимизировать потребление ресурсов обычным браузером. Да-да ребята из команды Chrome, я про Вас говорю! Почему программисты из google вдруг решили что я согласен дарить им по 300-500мб памяти для того чтобы просто открыть видео и посмотреть на котиков - это другой вопрос. Вернёмся к ОЗУ. Недавно я решил её увеличить, смешно сказать при текущих цифрах, но у меня было 4GB, да это ничтожно мало в современных условиях, я это понимаю, хотя раньше я делал почти всё то же самое за своим ПК что и сейчас, а вот потребление ресурсов заметно выросло.

Just recently I added another 4GB of memory (for a total of 8GB) and ... it is again almost filled with the same browser). Is this normal, or is the problem somewhere in the bowels of my OS (Windows 10 Pro)?

Answer 1

Fine.
You just don’t have enough memory, so it consumes little, put at least 32GB, it will consume more.

Just recently I added another 4GB of memory (for a total of 8GB) and ... it is again almost filled with the same browser

Well, besides the browser, other programs also need memory.
8Gb is a necessary minimum for comfortable work of an office user - Word, Excel, easy surfing in the browser, no heavy applications. There, the alignment is something like this - 2GB for the OS, 4GB for the browser, and two more for the disk cache. As a result, it is quite optimal for office work.
If you run something resource-intensive, you need more memory.

programmers still probably can't optimize the resource consumption of a regular browser

You don't quite understand the situation.
A modern browser is not a program for displaying rich text.
This is essentially an operating system - a container for running programs.
And a modern site is not just formatted text, it is a program that runs on the user's computer, in the user's browser, and requires a lot of processor resources and memory!
Therefore, it is not the browser that consumes memory, but the programs that you execute in the browser.
Open the source code of any site and see how many scripts there are - and they all run on your processor, are placed in the memory of your computer, and also cache data on your disk.

cannot optimize resource consumption

The lower the consumption of resources, the lower the speed of work.
You can make the program consume 10 kilobytes of memory, or you can make the same program consume 3 gigabytes of memory.
The speed of work depends on it - slowly, but there is not enough memory. Or fast, but with a large memory consumption.
So we have to optimize - so that it works quickly, and consumes no more memory than you can put in a modern computer.

Answer 2

Everything is actually very simple - install The Great Suspender extension, it freezes unviewed tabs, and when you access them, it quickly launches. Reduces memory consumption by 1.5-2 times.

Answer 3

Change the browser, for example, to the same Opera, it spends less RAM (much less)
Chrome itself is not optimized, like all their other services.

Answer 4

Put better SSD and don't worry

Answer 5

Judging by the screenshot of the Task Manager, it's not about memory.