How many Tabs with 1.5 TB of RAM?

Chrome crashed at 4,500 tabs

They crashed Chrome at 4,500 tabs on Linux. The system handled it gracefully, but the previous record of 6,000 tabs was not beaten. Websites are heavier now, and GPU VRAM is a bottleneck.

• 💻 Windows 11 crashed at 3,001 tabs due to resource exhaustion.
• 🚀 Linux, with file limits raised to 65,535, also struggled, with VRAM being a major bottleneck.
• 💨 ZRAM, a Linux feature that compresses RAM, could help systems with less memory.
• 📈 Websites have become significantly heavier, contributing to resource issues.
• 💾 The previous record of 6,000 tabs was not surpassed in this test.

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