Friday, August 06, 2021

Minimum RAM for Chrome

I've got a spare laptop that I use for web browsing. Since it only has
4GB RAM, OpenBSD seemed a good fit for it.

However Chrome is extremely slow. I've increased system resource limits
as mentioned in the email list archives, but that didn't resolve the
issue.

If I turn off video acceleration blacklisting in Chrome, videos play
faster but starting the browser takes ages and sometimes fails entirely.
Regardless, there is still lots of lag when loading pages.

Am I running into system memory limits ("minimum 8GB RAM to surf the
web"? what is the world coming to?) or is another issue likely the
cause?

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