Google chrome question

Factual Questions
1

I’m running Google Chrome on a laptop with Win 7.

I just happened to notice that when Chrome is running, Task Manager (on the Processes tab) shows multiple listings for chrome.exe *32. If I only have one Chrome open, why the multiple listings?

(For example, I have Chrome open now, and it’s listed 7 times in Task Manager, each with a different and changing amount of memory.

2

I think Chrome shows in the task list as a separate process for each tab. It does that in mine (XP, desktop). Dunno if that’s good or bad. Do you have several tabs open?

3

Right now I have 2 tabs open and there are 7 processes showing.

4

Interesting. I have 5 tabs open and 5 processes marked Chrome.

Could you have closed some tabs? Maybe Chrome doesn’t close the processes so it can open new ones faster.

Unless you are suspecting a problem, I don’t know what you will learn by counting processes and tabs or anything else. IMHO, Chrome is pretty good about RAM allocation.

5

I noticed this as well. When I close a tab, the process doesn’t close, just the tab.

I have five tabs and seven instances of chrome.

6

Chrome definitely starts new processes for every tab and “other stuff.” I’m currently on my WinXP work machine and have 2 tabs open, with 4 processes.

7

Not every tab. I currently have 34 tabs and “only” 19 Chrome processes.

8

A nice write-up on how tabs and processes are managed in Chrome:

http://blog.marcchung.com/2008/09/05/chromes-process-model-explained.html

9

Thanks, this is great!