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Usage of RAM seems to have skyrocketed - help?
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1531847" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>kernel_task will use more memory if it's available. Think of it as the "master scheduler" for your machine, managing CPU resources and allocating resources to things when it needs it. In this way, it's akin to your brain. As such, it's given and takes resources whenever it needs it since it would have priority (just as your brain is given biological priority over other parts of your body). Going back to your issue, 1.2 GB really isn't a lot given what it's responsible for. In fact, I'd be surprised if it was using less than a GB after more that two minutes of uptime.</p><p></p><p>I believe Maxthon is based on Chromium which explains the many renderer and helper processes. This is one of the consequences of using a Chromium based browser - you get excellent isolation but do so at the cost of excessive memory usage. It's a tradeoff you'll have to take if you want to use it.</p><p>It's called a cloud browser because they integrate a lot of web services like tab and bookmark syncing and not because they offload resource rendering to a cloud based service a la Opera Turbo. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1531847, member: 71075"] kernel_task will use more memory if it's available. Think of it as the "master scheduler" for your machine, managing CPU resources and allocating resources to things when it needs it. In this way, it's akin to your brain. As such, it's given and takes resources whenever it needs it since it would have priority (just as your brain is given biological priority over other parts of your body). Going back to your issue, 1.2 GB really isn't a lot given what it's responsible for. In fact, I'd be surprised if it was using less than a GB after more that two minutes of uptime. I believe Maxthon is based on Chromium which explains the many renderer and helper processes. This is one of the consequences of using a Chromium based browser - you get excellent isolation but do so at the cost of excessive memory usage. It's a tradeoff you'll have to take if you want to use it. It's called a cloud browser because they integrate a lot of web services like tab and bookmark syncing and not because they offload resource rendering to a cloud based service a la Opera Turbo. ;) [/QUOTE]
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