Chromium Memory Usage

Memory Usage Backgrounder
Chromium Memory Usage

Here is some background information if you are measuring memory in Chromium.

Multi-Process Model Background
To understand Chromium's memory usage, let's understand the multi-process model. Unlike other browsers, Chromium is divided into multiple processes. When Chromium starts up, it will initially have two processes. One process is the browser process which controls the main browser functionality, and the other is the initial renderer process, which runs the WebKit rendering engine and JavaScript (V8). Each time you open a new tab in Chromium, you'll likely get a new renderer process. With typical browsing, it is common to see 5-7 chrome.exe processes active. Further, if the pages you have open contain plugins, those plugins will also execute within independent processes. All of Chromium's processes, whether it is a browser process, a renderer process, or a plugin process, will show under the Task Manager as "chrome.exe".

Here is a screenshot of what you might see from Windows Vista running Chromium:


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