Windows 10: Advanced memory management and more performance improvements in Chrome

Brink · Mar 12, 2021

Boosting performance while adding features, functionality, and improving security, requires deep and continuous investment. Todayâs post is the first in a series this year that will go into more technical detail about Chrome's ongoing efforts around performance. In this release, weâve dug deep into the core of Chrome, upgrading how we allocate and discard memory, and even how we build, package, and run Chrome, to make todayâs Chrome even faster and more memory efficient.

Improving memory management

In Chrome M89, weâre seeing significant memory savings on Windows--up to 22% in the browser process, 8% in the renderer, and 3% in the GPU. Even more than that, weâve improved browser responsiveness by up to 9%. Weâve achieved this by using PartitionAlloc, our own advanced memory allocator, which is optimized for low allocation latency, space efficiency, and security. For some time now, PartitionAlloc has been used extensively within Blink, our renderer codebase. Starting in M89, weâve upgraded Chrome on Android and 64-bit Windows to use PartitionAlloc everywhere (by intercepting malloc).

In addition to improving how we allocate memory, Chrome is now smarter about using (and discarding) memory. Chrome now reclaims up to 100MiB per tab, which is more than 20% on some popular sites, by discarding memory that the foreground tab is not actively using, such as big images youâve scrolled off screen. Chrome is also shrinking its memory footprint in background tabs on macOS, something weâve been doing on other platforms for a while. Weâre seeing up to 8% memory savings, which is more than 1GiB in some cases!

Finally, with more data from the field on tab throttling, weâre seeing up to 65% improvement on Apple Energy Impact score for tabs in the background, keeping your Mac cooler and those fans quiet.

Build, packaging, and runtime improvements

Focusing on Chrome for Android, we have a uniquely challenging job of building a great browser for every single variant of Android device. In this release weâre taking advantage of some packaging and runtime optimizations to deliver better performance in the Chrome that is in your pocket.

Some new Play and Android capabilities allowed us to repackage Chrome on Android, and weâre seeing fewer crashes due to resource exhaustion, a 5% improvement in memory usage, 7.5% faster startup times, and up to 2% faster page loads. Android App Bundles allow the Play Store to generate optimized APKs for each userâs device configuration, and allows packaging code and resources in split APKs, which are installed alongside the base APK. And an Android O feature, isolatedSplits, allows these feature splits to be loaded on demand, reducing Chromeâs overall startup cost.

For those of you who picked up the latest Android devices (Android Q+ and 8GB+ of RAM), weâve rebuilt Chrome as a 64-bit binary, giving you a more stable Chrome that is up to 8.5% faster to load pages and 28% smoother when it comes to scrolling and input latency.

Finally, weâve built a way for Chrome on Android to start up 13% faster: Freeze-Dried Tabs. Chrome now saves a lightweight version of your tabs that are similar in size to a screenshot, but support scrolling, zooming, and tapping on links. We use these Freeze-Dried Tabs at startup while the actual tab loads in the background, getting you to your pages faster. See it in action below:

Our teams are always working hard to bring you the fastest and most powerful browser on every one of your devices. Weâre very excited to bring you these performance improvements and have much more to come, so stay tuned.

Posted by Mark Chang, Chrome Product Manager
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Source: Chromium Blog: Advanced memory management and more performance improvements in M89

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Rolando Rosales · Mar 12, 2021

Improve performance

Hi Linda

I´m an Independent Advisor

I listed some action you may do to improve performance.

The following suggestions can help your PC make the most out of Windows 10. The tips are listed in order, so start with the first one, see if that helps, and then continue to the next one if it doesn’t.

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1. Make sure you have the latest updates for Windows and device drivers

2. Restart your PC and open only the apps you need

3. Check memory and memory usage

4. Check for low disk space and make some room

5. Restore your PC from a system restore point

6. Disable unnecessary startup programs

7. Check for and remove viruses and malware

8. Check for corrupted Windows system files

9. Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows

10. Pause OneDrive syncing

11. Reset your PC

link

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/400201...

Let me know if this solve your issue

Saludos

Kiran Kishore · Mar 12, 2021

Disable app to help improve performance

Hi Kenneth,

We appreciate you for being a part of Windows 10.

Which is the app you wish to disable to improve performance?

I suggest you to run the System maintenance troubleshooter and check if it fixes the issue.
Follow the steps given below:

Press Windows + X keys on the keyboard and select
Control Panel

Type Troubleshooting in the search bar on the
Control Panel.

Click on View all on the left navigation pane.

Click on System maintenance.

Click on Advanced on the System maintenance
dialog box and click on Run as administrator (Enter the credentials if required).

Click on Next and follow onscreen instruction complete the
System maintenance troubleshooter.

I suggest you to refer the below article and check if you are able to improve performance.

Note: The below link applies well to Windows 10 also.

Performance & maintenance

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/...-8&v1h=win8tab1&v2h=win7tab1&v3h=winvistatab1

I hope the above information helps. Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.

Radney Dri · Mar 12, 2021

BSOD - CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT - 0x101 (0x18, 0x0, 0xFFFFC20023C9E180, 0x6) - Google Chrome

Hi Jakub,

Based on the information provided on the previous replies. It's possible that the only issue is Google Chrome since the error only happens when using it, we suggest that you try and contact their support about this issue. We also suggest that you try the
step "Check memory and memory usage" in Windows 10 improve pc performance.

Looking forward to your response.

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