
I am testing with Chrome being the only process I'm running (other than system monitor and terminal). I have kept an eye on System Monitor and noticed no obvious signs of memory leakage, just that Chrome usage causes CPU spikes. Google searches mostly points to old threads about Chrome in general being a RAM hog, however I don't feel those are relevant because I'm running the current version, and on this same machine Chrome functions just fine. Memory is at 4.7GiB / 7 GiB, with none of my 2GiB of Swap being used. System monitor is showing abnormally high CPU usage, sometimes with all 4 cores at 100% when refreshing a page in Chrome. Everything is much slower than when I'm running OSX on this same machine, doing far more "heavy lifting." I have noticed the system working extremely slowly when Chrome is running with reasonable tabs (5-6). I am exploring a dual-boot of Ubuntu on my Macbook Pro.

Graphics: Intel® Iris 6100 (Broadwell GT3)

Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-5257U CPU 2.70GHz × 4
