Chrome to consume more RAM after patching spectrum crashes

Google recently unveiled on its official digital security page the launch of an update for Chrome to isolate all the critical threats and vulnerabilities found in various models and processor brands affected by Spectrum.

The main component to removing Specter's threats from users is Site Isolation, a tool that has been implemented with the launch of Chrome 67 for Windows, MacOS, ChromeOS, and Linux.

Site Isolation cancels the operation of any Digital Spectrum threat that is hosted on any site, loading information into an isolated and protected browser environment so that intruders can not access personal data or user navigation information.

Measure increases the use of RAM

Although this is an effective measure to avoid Spectrum, the execution of parallel processes to protect the The stems of threats eventually lead to an increase in the consumption of RAM of about 13% compared to the previous version of the browser.

"The site isolation causes Chrome to create more rendering process, which comes with the exchange of performance: on the plus side, each rendering process is shorter and less cluttered internally , but there is an overload of 10% to 13% of the total memory in the actual workloads due to the large number of processes "Charlie Reis, Google Software Engineer

Source: Google Security Blog