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		cxseven on Dec 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54 Reducing RAM usage will reduce disk activity, though, so there's that.

0xffff2 on Dec 4, 2016 [–]

Why would that be? Unless you're frequently running out of RAM and swapping to disk, RAM usage shouldn't correlate to disk usage much, right?

haneefmubarak on Dec 4, 2016 | [–]

Because all of that "unused" RAM in the background is actually being used by the OS for disk caching, thus reducing the overall frequency of reads.

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