Ubuntu flirts with Chrome instead of Firefox

[Kevin Hunter]

At 9:53am -0400 Sun, 16 May 2010, David Gerard wrote:
>> [Chromium in Ubuntu ... heavy on the memory usage!]

> A process per browser tab is an obviously sensible thing to at 
> least try. However, you do pay in memory.

I wonder if the 2.6.32+ kernels will help with this?  Specifically the
KSM feature (memory deduplication):

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32#head-d3f32e41df508090810388a57efce73f52660ccb

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kernel-shared-memory/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01LX-KSMdth-LX

I can't imagine that there isn't a significant amount of highly similar
code pages between the processes; if Chromium doesn't already make use
of the madvise syscall, I surmise it would have a lot to gain.

Anyone at all facile enough with the chromium code to grep through for
madvise calls?

Kevin