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Improve memory usage in Debian
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Improve memory usage in Debian
Hello.
Is it possible to free memory or somehow check if is there any memory "hanging up" somewhere in my system?
I have 16Gb of memory in a laptop and I have no so called heavy programs running. I have a few programs running though, like Discord, Skype, Telegram, irssi, rtorrent Chromium (like 15 tabs open), AnyDesk, Atom (text editor) and not much more and I always have indication from htop of being using 12Gb of memory and more. Swap also shows up pretty used. Of 4.87Gb, almos 3Gbs are being used.
Isn't this too much for what I have running in my laptop? Can I check if is there anything wrong with memory usage or swap usage? What can I do to at least check if this is ok?
This is how my htop looks like:
Why Chromium has that red time value? Why is it in red?
Is it possible to free memory or somehow check if is there any memory "hanging up" somewhere in my system?
I have 16Gb of memory in a laptop and I have no so called heavy programs running. I have a few programs running though, like Discord, Skype, Telegram, irssi, rtorrent Chromium (like 15 tabs open), AnyDesk, Atom (text editor) and not much more and I always have indication from htop of being using 12Gb of memory and more. Swap also shows up pretty used. Of 4.87Gb, almos 3Gbs are being used.
Isn't this too much for what I have running in my laptop? Can I check if is there anything wrong with memory usage or swap usage? What can I do to at least check if this is ok?
This is how my htop looks like:
Why Chromium has that red time value? Why is it in red?
Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
though u haven't confirmed but I know u r using gnome
solution
dont
solution
dont
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Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
It's not Gnome. It's Plasma Desktop!sickpig wrote:though u haven't confirmed but I know u r using gnome
solution
dont
Which lighter Desktop you recommend? I don't want the simplest and most memory light desktop. I just want one that can bare with my laptop. I know a few like LXDE, XFCE but maybe those are too simple?
Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
plasma is evil twin of gnome
try lxde and experience how responsive your system becomes
and geez 15 open tabs? y? thats just inefficient way of working(sorry for being rude)
try a tab suspender or some extension
the best way is to change your workflow and not open a so many tabs
i cant imagine a scenario wherein anything could be productive with so many tabs open
also remove any superfluous browser extensions which you might have
try lxde and experience how responsive your system becomes
and geez 15 open tabs? y? thats just inefficient way of working(sorry for being rude)
try a tab suspender or some extension
the best way is to change your workflow and not open a so many tabs
i cant imagine a scenario wherein anything could be productive with so many tabs open
also remove any superfluous browser extensions which you might have
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Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
The 15 tabs is just to avoid be opening them every time I need to read something from there. I have just a couple of extensions. Not many. Or maybe I have some. But I feel I need them all. At least 18 add-ons.sickpig wrote:plasma is evil twin of gnome
try lxde and experience how responsive your system becomes
and geez 15 open tabs? y? thats just inefficient way of working(sorry for being rude)
try a tab suspender or some extension
the best way is to change your workflow and not open a so many tabs
i cant imagine a scenario wherein anything could be productive with so many tabs open
also remove any superfluous browser extensions which you might have
Anyway, what about the red time of my htop for Chromium? And also what means that column called 'S' between 'SHR' and CPU%?
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Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
I've a multiple amount of tabs of that 15....sickpig wrote:the best way is to change your workflow and not open a so many tabs
i cant imagine a scenario wherein anything could be productive with so many tabs open
Sometimes make a backup of them to a spreadsheet.
When you are working... on several things.. it is not very handy to be limited to very little amount of tabs...
So your perfect workflow does not need to be mine....
I mostly use Opera for that under Debian 8 & Windows...
So far never had a problem with so many tabs open, most problems are coming from other programs (under Windows the virusscanner..... ).
Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
Excellent more power to uandre@home wrote:[I've a multiple amount of tabs of that 15....
Sometimes make a backup of them to a spreadsheet.
When you are working... on several things.. it is not very handy to be limited to very little amount of tabs...
So your perfect workflow does not need to be mine....
open as many as u can thats the way. hope u can still c the title of the webpape on that tab amongst more than 15 of yours though
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Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
off topic;
Opera has a search engine for the tabs...
Very handy...
Time to go to school again....
Opera has a search engine for the tabs...
Very handy...
Time to go to school again....
Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
really!?PsySc0rpi0n wrote:[18 add-ons.
u know each of those addons consumes RAM right? atleast 100mb probably each, thats ur 2 Gig right there
sorry i dont use either htop or chromium so i have no clue about below
PsySc0rpi0n wrote:[Anyway, what about the red time of my htop for Chromium? And also what means that column called 'S' between 'SHR' and CPU%?
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Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
@OP: please post the output of
It would also help to see what ps_mem says about individual programs' memory consumption:
Here are my outputs for reference:
I have 10 tabs open in FF.
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free -h
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git clone https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem && cd ps_mem
sudo ./ps_mem.py # or: su -c './ps_mem.py'
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E485:~$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15Gi 544Mi 14Gi 52Mi 662Mi 14Gi
Swap: 4.0Gi 0B 4.0Gi
E485:~$ sudo ps-mem
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
220.0 KiB + 51.5 KiB = 271.5 KiB startx
280.0 KiB + 151.5 KiB = 431.5 KiB xinit
300.0 KiB + 153.5 KiB = 453.5 KiB slstatus
312.0 KiB + 181.5 KiB = 493.5 KiB cron
580.0 KiB + 147.5 KiB = 727.5 KiB alsactl
904.0 KiB + 259.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB login
748.0 KiB + 589.5 KiB = 1.3 MiB loksh (3)
1.0 MiB + 324.5 KiB = 1.3 MiB sudo
960.0 KiB + 765.5 KiB = 1.7 MiB dwm
1.0 MiB + 860.5 KiB = 1.8 MiB systemd-timesyncd
1.0 MiB + 948.0 KiB = 1.9 MiB dbus-daemon (2)
1.2 MiB + 790.5 KiB = 2.0 MiB systemd-logind
1.0 MiB + 1.6 MiB = 2.6 MiB systemd-udevd (2)
2.4 MiB + 793.5 KiB = 3.2 MiB systemd-journald
3.3 MiB + 50.5 KiB = 3.4 MiB wpa_supplicant
3.1 MiB + 4.5 MiB = 7.6 MiB systemd (3)
12.4 MiB + 3.1 MiB = 15.6 MiB xterm (2)
41.9 MiB + 20.8 MiB = 62.7 MiB Xorg
346.4 MiB + 99.7 MiB = 446.1 MiB firefox-esr (3)
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554.7 MiB
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E485:~$
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Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
It might be 'buntu but there is some useful information here https://askubuntu.com/questions/2194/ho ... erformance
Do you have a HDD or a SDD?
Do you need all the tabs all the time? Or, could you put them in a folder, open all and close them as you finish with them?
Do you autostart programs? Do you need to?
Do you have a HDD or a SDD?
Do you need all the tabs all the time? Or, could you put them in a folder, open all and close them as you finish with them?
Do you autostart programs? Do you need to?
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Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
That is a pretty hefty list of heavy-hitters, especially if you are running all of them at once.PsySc0rpi0n wrote:I have no so called heavy programs running. I have a few programs running though, like Discord, Skype, Telegram, irssi, rtorrent Chromium (like 15 tabs open), AnyDesk, Atom
You could reduce swappiness, at least that is what I would advise you to do. You need only about 15, the default is 60, which is way too high.
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nano /etc/sysctl.conf
Also, ignore sickpig and everyone else who keeps bragging about their DE/WM choices. I am running GNOME, which is considered heavier than Plasma, and I'm not having much problems on a entry to mid level laptop. Your problem lies elsewhere. Try to reduce the amount of autostarted applications. Use recent versions of Chromium, the ones in Stretch and Buster are outdated. Or switch to Firefox for a while and test.
If you are still on Stretch, it would be beneficial to upgrade to Buster, as Plasma 5.14 is much faster and lighter than 5.8 in Stretch.
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Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
I guess it depends on how we do things, huh. My current tally arranged in my way suggest window and tab count don't tell the whole story. Currently, 105 tabs and 24 windows, 18968 MB ram, 580 MB swap. 34 days up. No issue.
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Improve memory usage in Debian
Jeeezzz. From what I read of other's experiences, I should have no problems. I'm not at the PC but I'll try to run those commands to see what I get. I know that Chromium is most likely the coolprit. I closed all applications but Chromium and RAM went down to about 8Gb and swap just slightly decreased.
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Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
Ok, I removed 6 addons I probably can leave without. I have closed a few Chromium tabs and closed Atom, Skype, Dropbox (icon next to the clock), Hangouts (icon next to the clock).
Now things looks a lot better.
Here it goes:
Someone asked about if I have an SDD or HDD.
Where Debian is running is an SDD.
Any programs that are starting at boot is because they self-configured to autostart when they were installed.
I'll try that trick about sysctl.conf. I'm in Stretch. Is Buster already stated as stable? Or testing?
Now things looks a lot better.
Here it goes:
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free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15G 3,5G 7,9G 227M 4,2G 11G
Swap: 4,9G 747M 4,1G
su -c './ps_mem.py'
Password:
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
4.0 KiB + 4.5 KiB = 8.5 KiB uuidd
4.0 KiB + 4.5 KiB = 8.5 KiB startkde
4.0 KiB + 4.5 KiB = 8.5 KiB agetty
4.0 KiB + 8.5 KiB = 12.5 KiB dbus-launch [updated]
4.0 KiB + 9.5 KiB = 13.5 KiB sshd
4.0 KiB + 10.5 KiB = 14.5 KiB dirmngr
8.0 KiB + 8.5 KiB = 16.5 KiB ksysguardd
4.0 KiB + 13.5 KiB = 17.5 KiB obexd
4.0 KiB + 13.5 KiB = 17.5 KiB ck-launch-session
4.0 KiB + 17.5 KiB = 21.5 KiB kwrapper5
4.0 KiB + 21.5 KiB = 25.5 KiB gconf-helper
8.0 KiB + 30.0 KiB = 38.0 KiB dconf-service (2)
44.0 KiB + 2.5 KiB = 46.5 KiB start_kdeinit
40.0 KiB + 8.5 KiB = 48.5 KiB rtkit-daemon
48.0 KiB + 5.5 KiB = 53.5 KiB atd
36.0 KiB + 27.5 KiB = 63.5 KiB sddm-helper
68.0 KiB + 2.5 KiB = 70.5 KiB ssh-agent
4.0 KiB + 75.5 KiB = 79.5 KiB virtlogd
80.0 KiB + 7.5 KiB = 87.5 KiB gpg-agent
116.0 KiB + 7.5 KiB = 123.5 KiB memcached
124.0 KiB + 5.5 KiB = 129.5 KiB cron
128.0 KiB + 7.5 KiB = 135.5 KiB dbus-monitor [updated]
128.0 KiB + 19.5 KiB = 147.5 KiB gconfd-2
148.0 KiB + 15.5 KiB = 163.5 KiB gvfsd-fuse
164.0 KiB + 7.5 KiB = 171.5 KiB irqbalance
176.0 KiB + 4.5 KiB = 180.5 KiB polipo
188.0 KiB + 6.5 KiB = 194.5 KiB lvmetad
252.0 KiB + 5.5 KiB = 257.5 KiB proftpd
232.0 KiB + 58.5 KiB = 290.5 KiB chrome-sandbox
304.0 KiB + 10.5 KiB = 314.5 KiB rpcbind
324.0 KiB + 7.5 KiB = 331.5 KiB acpid
192.0 KiB + 202.5 KiB = 394.5 KiB dnsmasq (3)
376.0 KiB + 20.5 KiB = 396.5 KiB at-spi2-registryd
404.0 KiB + 43.5 KiB = 447.5 KiB at-spi-bus-launcher
412.0 KiB + 47.5 KiB = 459.5 KiB sddm
420.0 KiB + 59.5 KiB = 479.5 KiB accounts-daemon
500.0 KiB + 5.5 KiB = 505.5 KiB exim4
392.0 KiB + 136.5 KiB = 528.5 KiB gvfsd
540.0 KiB + 6.5 KiB = 546.5 KiB smartd
532.0 KiB + 67.0 KiB = 599.0 KiB avahi-daemon (2)
668.0 KiB + 35.5 KiB = 703.5 KiB ntpd
448.0 KiB + 264.5 KiB = 712.5 KiB systemd-logind
680.0 KiB + 64.5 KiB = 744.5 KiB ModemManager
748.0 KiB + 7.5 KiB = 755.5 KiB rsyslogd
700.0 KiB + 77.5 KiB = 777.5 KiB kaccess
812.0 KiB + 76.5 KiB = 888.5 KiB upowerd
920.0 KiB + 7.5 KiB = 927.5 KiB dhclient
980.0 KiB + 18.5 KiB = 998.5 KiB bluetoothd
960.0 KiB + 74.5 KiB = 1.0 MiB kscreen_backend_launcher
952.0 KiB + 96.5 KiB = 1.0 MiB console-kit-daemon
1.0 MiB + 108.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB xterm
1.2 MiB + 4.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB mount.ntfs-3g
1.2 MiB + 64.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB wpa_supplicant
904.0 KiB + 374.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB gvfsd-trash
1.2 MiB + 100.5 KiB = 1.3 MiB kiod5
1.3 MiB + 80.5 KiB = 1.4 MiB akonadi_control
1.1 MiB + 257.5 KiB = 1.4 MiB su
1.4 MiB + 86.5 KiB = 1.4 MiB akonadi_migration_agent
1.3 MiB + 160.5 KiB = 1.5 MiB colord
1.4 MiB + 86.5 KiB = 1.5 MiB akonadi_contacts_resource
1.2 MiB + 350.5 KiB = 1.6 MiB cups-browsed
1.5 MiB + 98.5 KiB = 1.6 MiB akonadi_akonotes_resource
1.5 MiB + 149.5 KiB = 1.6 MiB cupsd
1.5 MiB + 104.5 KiB = 1.6 MiB akonadi_maildir_resource
1.5 MiB + 254.5 KiB = 1.7 MiB xembedsniproxy
1.7 MiB + 8.5 KiB = 1.7 MiB systemd-udevd
1.7 MiB + 103.5 KiB = 1.8 MiB akonadi_newmailnotifier_agent
1.7 MiB + 185.0 KiB = 1.9 MiB screen (2)
1.3 MiB + 687.5 KiB = 2.0 MiB klauncher
1.9 MiB + 132.5 KiB = 2.1 MiB kdeconnectd
1.9 MiB + 142.5 KiB = 2.1 MiB akonadi_ical_resource
1.6 MiB + 523.0 KiB = 2.1 MiB python3.5 (2)
1.8 MiB + 233.5 KiB = 2.1 MiB kuiserver5
2.0 MiB + 131.5 KiB = 2.1 MiB akonadi_maildispatcher_agent
2.1 MiB + 105.5 KiB = 2.2 MiB akonadi_mailfilter_agent
1.9 MiB + 370.5 KiB = 2.3 MiB kwalletd5
2.2 MiB + 151.5 KiB = 2.4 MiB korgac
2.1 MiB + 342.5 KiB = 2.4 MiB akonadi_followupreminder_agent
2.2 MiB + 203.5 KiB = 2.4 MiB htop
2.3 MiB + 158.5 KiB = 2.4 MiB systemd-journald
2.0 MiB + 438.5 KiB = 2.4 MiB gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor
2.3 MiB + 172.5 KiB = 2.5 MiB akonadi_notes_agent
2.5 MiB + 36.5 KiB = 2.6 MiB perl
2.4 MiB + 177.5 KiB = 2.6 MiB akonadi_archivemail_agent
2.3 MiB + 298.5 KiB = 2.6 MiB udisksd
2.7 MiB + 138.5 KiB = 2.9 MiB polkitd
3.2 MiB + 91.5 KiB = 3.2 MiB vim.gtk [updated]
3.1 MiB + 123.5 KiB = 3.3 MiB kglobalaccel5
3.3 MiB + 54.5 KiB = 3.3 MiB libvirtd
3.6 MiB + 94.5 KiB = 3.7 MiB akonadi_birthdays_resource
3.6 MiB + 94.5 KiB = 3.7 MiB akonadi_indexing_agent
2.5 MiB + 1.3 MiB = 3.8 MiB systemd (3)
3.3 MiB + 600.5 KiB = 3.8 MiB kactivitymanagerd
3.8 MiB + 0.5 KiB = 3.8 MiB teamviewerd
2.9 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 4.1 MiB kded4
4.0 MiB + 256.5 KiB = 4.3 MiB polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
2.8 MiB + 1.7 MiB = 4.5 MiB kdeinit4 (2)
4.5 MiB + 108.5 KiB = 4.6 MiB tracker-store
4.5 MiB + 462.5 KiB = 5.0 MiB hp-systray
4.8 MiB + 365.5 KiB = 5.2 MiB akonadi_sendlater_agent
5.1 MiB + 267.5 KiB = 5.4 MiB freshclam
5.3 MiB + 70.0 KiB = 5.4 MiB gnome-keyring-daemon (2)
5.1 MiB + 389.0 KiB = 5.5 MiB dbus-daemon [updated] (4)
5.7 MiB + 1.0 MiB = 6.7 MiB bash (5)
5.3 MiB + 1.5 MiB = 6.8 MiB pulseaudio
7.6 MiB + 883.5 KiB = 8.4 MiB org_kde_powerdevil
8.4 MiB + 551.5 KiB = 9.0 MiB krunner
9.5 MiB + 138.5 KiB = 9.6 MiB NetworkManager
9.5 MiB + 326.5 KiB = 9.8 MiB MusicManager
12.8 MiB + 642.5 KiB = 13.4 MiB ksmserver
12.6 MiB + 915.5 KiB = 13.5 MiB rtorrent main
12.7 MiB + 1.9 MiB = 14.6 MiB kdeinit5 (2)
16.9 MiB + 71.5 KiB = 17.0 MiB akonadiserver
9.6 MiB + 7.9 MiB = 17.5 MiB apache2 (6)
19.3 MiB + 125.5 KiB = 19.4 MiB irssi
26.0 MiB + 16.5 KiB = 26.0 MiB prx
37.6 MiB + 252.5 KiB = 37.8 MiB packagekitd
39.0 MiB + 2.2 MiB = 41.3 MiB kwin_x11
45.7 MiB + 911.0 KiB = 46.6 MiB mysqld (2)
49.8 MiB + 6.8 MiB = 56.6 MiB konsole
95.1 MiB + 11.5 MiB = 106.6 MiB telegram-desktop
156.5 MiB + 3.7 MiB = 160.2 MiB Xorg
272.6 MiB + 7.3 MiB = 279.8 MiB plasmashell
2.3 GiB + 143.6 MiB = 2.4 GiB chromium (28)
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3.4 GiB
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Someone asked about if I have an SDD or HDD.
Where Debian is running is an SDD.
Any programs that are starting at boot is because they self-configured to autostart when they were installed.
I'll try that trick about sysctl.conf. I'm in Stretch. Is Buster already stated as stable? Or testing?
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Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
Not sure where you get this from.sickpig wrote:plasma is evil twin of gnome
Gnome on my machine uses over 1gb of ram on startup and never lets go of ram when I close programs
KDE uses 350mb
One thing that helps KDE is to not install all the bloat but even when I had all that it used very little ram.
So the op has something going on or expects to have way too much running all at once.
LXDE is ok if you want your machine too look like it is 2002.
WOWguess it depends on how we do things, huh. My current tally arranged in my way suggest window and tab count don't tell the whole story. Currently, 105 tabs and 24 windows, 18968 MB ram, 580 MB swap. 34 days up. No issue.
What are you running for hardware I want it? LoL
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Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
Try Opera and compare the numbers/behavior and report back.
Why? Read this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/c ... om_chrome/
Why? Read this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/c ... om_chrome/
Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
opera is also chromium based the RAM usage wouldn't differ much
Also, if you are browsing resource intensive websites like microsoft teams then RAM is going to deplete fast. It uses around 500 mb in chrome for just that one tab!!
Depends what 15 tabs are opened by OP, if they are as RAM magnets as teams then there goes half of his RAM.
@OP I am glad removing addons helped your cause
@theblueplll couldn't agree more, kde is definitely better than gnome but still heavy nonetheless. All the bling is going to spike RAM usage for sure.
@OP if you want to painlessly cut down on autostart apps then i have just the right app for it. let me know if you want to.
Also, ignore Wheelerof4te who keeps bragging about gnome, unlesss you want to try it. Expect more than double RAM usage on it though
Edit: from your apps Atom is electron based. Electron apps are notorious for abusing RAM usage as they are chromium based. If possible try to find alternative which is non electron based.
Also, if you are browsing resource intensive websites like microsoft teams then RAM is going to deplete fast. It uses around 500 mb in chrome for just that one tab!!
Depends what 15 tabs are opened by OP, if they are as RAM magnets as teams then there goes half of his RAM.
@OP I am glad removing addons helped your cause
@theblueplll couldn't agree more, kde is definitely better than gnome but still heavy nonetheless. All the bling is going to spike RAM usage for sure.
@OP if you want to painlessly cut down on autostart apps then i have just the right app for it. let me know if you want to.
Also, ignore Wheelerof4te who keeps bragging about gnome, unlesss you want to try it. Expect more than double RAM usage on it though
Edit: from your apps Atom is electron based. Electron apps are notorious for abusing RAM usage as they are chromium based. If possible try to find alternative which is non electron based.
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Re: Improve memory usage in Debian
Do not have Chromium on my system and yet I'm on another OS, 117 tabs of Opera use only 22 MB per tab, sums up to 2.7 GB of RAM in use (from 16 GB).
So 22 MB per tab is >>20x less RAM user per tab than under Chromium? Hmmm. Can't imagine it will be so OS-dependent. So: Need to retest this under Debian.
So 22 MB per tab is >>20x less RAM user per tab than under Chromium? Hmmm. Can't imagine it will be so OS-dependent. So: Need to retest this under Debian.