Localhost:8888 needs to use THAT much memory?

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When changing between tabs, I saw this notification from Chrome saying that it saved 230MB of memory freeing the Localhost:8888 page.

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I don’t think it matters, but here is a screenshot of everything under my /tree. I had only notebooks open (no terminal or other files).

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Where all this memory comes from?

If I had to bet, I would bet that it is Chrome messing up memory management, but I wonder if anyone would have anything interesting to talk about this.

I am using MacOS, and the notebook connects to a remote server via ssh tunnel (in case this information matters)

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this is totally normal browser memory usage of jupyterlab, it’s quite a complex application.

comparing jupyterlab’s browser memory usage with other webpages/-services I think the usage is totally fine.

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Oh,

I see the “culprit”

I thought that localhost:8888/tree page was hogging 230 MB of the RAM
But the whole localhost:8888 “webpage” is using the 230 MB.

That makes more sense.

interesting