How to hunt down which tab or webpage (on Google Chrome) used a lot of memory?
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I already know Google Chrome was using a lot of memory for a badly behaving webpage. The issue was I don't know which webpage was doing that.
Sometimes after a day or two, possibly some webpage on Google Chrome might be using a lot of memory.
* Some webpage might not be intentionally broken or harmful but it could be the analytics or the ad system having a lot of memory leaks in their code
* Eventually, the Macbook swaps memory to disk and if unchecked, complaints of hard disk space running low arrive.
Using trail-and-error, if I close all tab and wait 2 - 3 minutes or quit entirely, then the hard drive all of a sudden gains back 2GB.
Is there a way to hunt down which webpage is eating up so much memory, other than by trail-and-error?
Asked by nonopolarity
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Jan 16, 2020, 12:56 AM
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