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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Nov 2017
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Compat



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http://thegrio.com/ using large amount of memory

Reported by khym.cha...@gmail.com, Dec 4 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.100 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
http://thegrio.com/2016/12/02/trump-no-border-thanks-to-vicious-rivers/?utm_content=bufferc4f58&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to the given URL and let it finish loading.

What is the expected behavior?
As shown by Chrome's task manager the page should use an acceptable amount of memory.

What went wrong?
According to Chrome's task manager, the page uses about 1.6 GB (1,711,000 KB) of memory.

Does it occur on multiple sites: No

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 54.0.2840.100  Channel: n/a
OS Version: Fedora 24
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 23.0 r0

Using Firefox 50.0, with just one window and one tab, uses only 717,000 KB.  That's still a lot, but it also include overhead.  Firefox just showing https://www.google.com/ uses 239,000 KB, so if you consider that to be the overhead the problem page was only taking 478,000 KB, meaning Chrome is taking 3.6 times as much memory to render the same page.
 
More tests:

1) Doing it again exactly as before gave a usage of 1,300,000 K instead of 1,771,000.

2) Doing it with a fresh user profile reduced usage to 680,00 K

3) Doing it with my usual profile but with both experiments and extensions turned off reduced it to 650,000 K

4) Doing it with my usual profile, minus experiments but plus extensions reduced it to 900,000K

Also, in all circumstances the amount of memory used seems to creep up as the minutes pass by.

Comment 2 by ajha@chromium.org, Dec 5 2016

Labels: M-54
Cc: pnangunoori@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
@khym.chanur -- Thanks for reporting this issue. Could you please try by updating your Chrome to latest Stable version #62.0.3202.75. If the issue persists please try by removing extensions and creating a new profile and let us know.

Thanks in advance! 
Can no longer reproduce problem with version 62.0.3202.75
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Comment 5 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Nov 3 2017

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "pnangunoori@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Marking this issue as WontFix as per the comment #4.

Thanks.

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