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Like I said I'm in no way a browser or web expert. I only have a notion of what could potentially fit in a certain amount of memory, and when I look at webpages I'm at least an order of magnitude off, in the wrong direction. This is why I'm worried. I sure hope I'm completely wrong!

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had to blog: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/16634123844/128mb...

To be honest, I don't really address where your 3GB for Chrome is going. All those memory figures you see should be taken with a pinch of salt. Reserving address space, using it and such are not so straightforward to untangle.

Your OS doesn't offer anything like http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13363076806/buffc... sadly.

Similar to your caching FS trick, it would be cool if Cleancache was exposed to the userspace somehow. (http://lwn.net/Articles/386090/)

Yes, the official blessing of a mechanism for caching would open the door to browsers using it

I like file schmantics because it gives us access control and an api that is straightforward to use

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