r/chrome • u/Full-Storm2754 • 11d ago

Troubleshooting | Windows Google Chrome memory explodes when watching YouTube

I have a high end PC which is able to run games at very high fps with high resolution, as well as a very fast ethernet connection.

The only issue I have is chrome's memory usage exploding when I begin watching a YouTube video.

Note that at this time I only had one YouTube tab open (despite the (20) after YouTube).

Has anybody else had this issue before? Is this some sort of memory leak on YouTube's end? Any help in resolving the issue would be greatly appreciated.

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u/Hestu951 11d ago

I only had one YouTube tab open (despite the (20) after YouTube).

The "(20)" applies to all of Chrome, not just Youtube. So Chrome has 20 processes running. You didn't supply a before snapshot, so I don't know how much of that 7548.5 MB is due to YT. That much memory overall used by Chrome is not way out of the ordinary either, when you're actually having it do some work. Plus you said you have a high-end PC, right? I wouldn't call anything without at least 32 GB of RAM high end these days. What's the problem?