Why does IE use so much memory
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
It's a feature they copied from Firefox. "Hey, Rastavan, See this 'memory score' in Task Master? We still below!" I have most problems with IE with plugins (flash and the like): they break the parallelism pretty badly. Memory, I haven't care much about. If your machine freezes, though, you might have a different problem: crappy hardware, crappy driver, or overheating.
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
I can't say for certain, because I don't know which pages you visit with IE, but there is the potential for memory leaks in badly written web apps in IE. The gist of it is, IE uses a second DOM to handle reference counting so when you add an event listener using basic JavaScript techniques, this gets AddRefed to the DOM. If you then don't delete the event handler later on, then it isn't released. This means that whatever was being held onto cannot be garbage collected by IE.
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It's a feature they copied from Firefox. "Hey, Rastavan, See this 'memory score' in Task Master? We still below!" I have most problems with IE with plugins (flash and the like): they break the parallelism pretty badly. Memory, I haven't care much about. If your machine freezes, though, you might have a different problem: crappy hardware, crappy driver, or overheating.
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| FoldWithUs! | sighist | WhoIncludes - Analyzing C++ include file hierarchyIt's a good ASUS motherboard. I like them generally. Not sure about drivers, but there should be few added drivers. I keep the machine pretty basic. Nah, it's a full size tower with good fans and a minimal graphics... I could feel around though.
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
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I can't say for certain, because I don't know which pages you visit with IE, but there is the potential for memory leaks in badly written web apps in IE. The gist of it is, IE uses a second DOM to handle reference counting so when you add an event listener using basic JavaScript techniques, this gets AddRefed to the DOM. If you then don't delete the event handler later on, then it isn't released. This means that whatever was being held onto cannot be garbage collected by IE.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
Mostly it is pages from Yahoo
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think I need to reboot IE as well. Running 5 iexplore instances worth > 2GB of memory (IE 8 on Xp)
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Ouch! Big ouch!
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
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It's a good ASUS motherboard. I like them generally. Not sure about drivers, but there should be few added drivers. I keep the machine pretty basic. Nah, it's a full size tower with good fans and a minimal graphics... I could feel around though.
Member 7980583 wrote:
it's a full size tower with good fans
Doesn't mean they are a) working, or b) not so clogged with dust that no air gets through. I generally hoover my fans out twice a year or so, including processor, but definitely including the PSU.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I can tell you in two words: javascript libraries If a web page uses a library such as jQuery memory has to be allocated for every function in the library, even for the functions not used. Some web pages have dozens of libraries included
Interesting. Yahoo uses the YUI library. I see that I have the same problem in Chrome as well.
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
Sorry, can't remember.
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
That depends on how much porn you load in "Incognito-mode". Browsers nowadays use an instance per tab, that makes them more aggressive on the RAM, but also more stable if some plugin crashes or so. EDIT: Due to spelling.
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
Don't forget IE8 and later spawn at least one process per tab as well. I don't know how much code gets shared between the tabs but I bet it's not that high....
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
It's not as if other browsers aren't guilty of the same thing. I'm on Chrome right now with 6 tabs open, which is pretty low for me. Can get to 20+ easily by the time I get through the new posts on Google Reader. Open up Task Manager and...16 processes running! Adding up the total, and...about 344MB. I just opened up IE9, and 6 tabs later...hmmm...198MB. Firefox, with only ONE tab open...201MB! So, it's certainly not just IE. Then there is Visual Studio...592MB process with just one instance running. Ouch!
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
I've been finding Win7 really wants to live in 8 GB of RAM. I made the argument that I was not the typical manager that needed the biggest and latest machine on the block just to check my e-mail. To my surprise they built me a machine that was i7 with 16 GB of RAM. I have just as big (if not larger) list of programs running at once and memory usage hovers at 8.38 GB. My AMD Phenom quadcore with 4 GB at home always seems to be wheezing. I plan to get another 4 GB to cure it, but it uses DDR2 :(
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Mostly it is pages from Yahoo
And therein lies the culprite. I use Yahoo a lot too. Yahoo news, Yahoo mail, etc.... The Yahoo sites contain a crapton of javascript, AJAX callbacks and integration into other services like comments and ad-related stuff. These things are monstrous and they recklessly consume resources. I think they leak too, browsing several Yahoo articles and then closing all the tabs doesn't significantly reduce IE's memory footprint.
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I have Windows 7 and I've recently had to do some cold rebooting due to the entire system freezing. I don't expect that in Windows 7. In the past, I've had SQL Server Management Studio, 3 instances of Visual Studio, Many browsers, NotePad++ and a whole slew of other apps open, with no problem. Currently I am finding that with a few apps open, the machine may freeze. It seemed to relate to IE when I have say, only 10 tabs open. I have 4 Gig of fast RAM and an I3 processor. I started watching the resources usage in the Task Manager. I see that closing IE may release 500 Meg of memory. That seems a bit excessive. Anyone have any thoughts? Written on Chrome... Thanks, Mike
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Member 7980583 wrote:
it's a full size tower with good fans
Doesn't mean they are a) working, or b) not so clogged with dust that no air gets through. I generally hoover my fans out twice a year or so, including processor, but definitely including the PSU.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
I agree. Even on a new mobo I've run into odd glitches that just shouldn't be and couldn't be easily pinned down until later the mobo just failed altogether. A new motherboard with all the same plugged in hardware (cpu/ram/ps/fans/hdd/dvd/cd/etc) ended up working just fine. And, the failed mobo was an ASUS as well! This was for my i7 proc with 6gb ram.
