Comment 3 for bug 608538

Here's what hppens, when
~$ killall chromium-browser
~$ top

top - 22:44:01 up 7 days, 1:29, 6 users, load average: 0.56, 0.29, 0.22
Tasks: 206 total, 1 running, 204 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.2%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1529884k total, 674928k used, 854956k free, 3344k buffers
Swap: 1638624k total, 604428k used, 1034196k free, 182908k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
11824 me 20 0 1465m 69m 7236 S 0 4.6 30:37.51 amarok
20478 me 20 0 244m 27m 6616 S 0 1.8 0:57.32 emacs23
  883 root 20 0 208m 20m 6916 S 1 1.4 64:18.24 Xorg
12424 me 20 0 315m 19m 5080 S 0 1.3 1:18.28 python
 9906 me 20 0 167m 16m 1268 S 0 1.1 12:35.23 amuled
 1646 me 20 0 395m 15m 3864 S 0 1.0 2:08.39 gnome-panel
 7617 me 20 0 570m 11m 3080 S 0 0.7 0:33.13 nautilus
25069 me 20 0 99.1m 10m 1672 S 0 0.7 0:01.37 mutt
 6712 me 20 0 387m 10m 2328 S 0 0.7 1:25.64 gwibber-service
 1878 me 20 0 262m 9660 4104 S 0 0.6 4:32.85 gnome-terminal
 1740 me 20 0 276m 8940 4596 S 0 0.6 0:20.85 gweather-applet
 1746 me 20 0 430m 8408 4284 S 0 0.5 0:19.77 clock-applet
 1631 me 20 0 295m 7780 3304 S 0 0.5 28:11.86 compiz
 1716 me 20 0 414m 7636 4124 S 0 0.5 1:58.47 wnck-applet
 1724 me 20 0 315m 7120 3484 S 0 0.5 1:29.06 gtk-window-deco
 6779 me 20 0 108m 7104 1400 S 0 0.5 7:00.32 beam.smp
 9891 root 25 5 36756 6364 324 S 0 0.4 2:00.54 moblock

ummary
Memory
Browser Private Proportional
Chromium
312,620k 49,711k
Note: If other browsers (e.g. IE, Firefox, Safari) are running, I'll show their memory details here.

When all tabs are revived approximately, we get:

Processes
Memory
PID Name Private Proportional
2423
Browser
43,460k 48,148k
2426

about:memory
2,176k N/A k
Σ 314796k
The top's output:
top - 22:55:47 up 7 days, 1:41, 6 users, load average: 0.10, 0.28, 0.30
Tasks: 226 total, 1 running, 224 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 8.8%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 89.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1529884k total, 1143980k used, 385904k free, 8468k buffers
Swap: 1638624k total, 598784k used, 1039840k free, 331380k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
11824 me 20 0 1465m 69m 7260 S 0 4.7 30:39.54 amarok
 2423 me 20 0 553m 59m 25m S 11 4.0 0:35.20 chromium-browse
 2580 me 25 5 870m 58m 13m S 1 3.9 0:06.37 chromium-browse
 2497 me 25 5 862m 49m 13m S 0 3.3 0:03.88 chromium-browse
 2598 me 25 5 883m 42m 14m S 0 2.8 0:02.00 chromium-browse
 2515 me 25 5 860m 41m 13m S 0 2.8 0:04.01 chromium-browse
 2603 me 25 5 853m 32m 13m S 0 2.2 0:01.66 chromium-browse
20478 me 20 0 244m 30m 8884 S 0 2.1 0:58.62 emacs23
 2459 me 20 0 849m 27m 9112 S 0 1.8 0:04.23 chromium-browse
 2551 me 25 5 783m 25m 12m S 0 1.7 0:01.02 chromium-browse
 2591 me 25 5 844m 24m 12m S 0 1.7 0:00.81 chromium-browse
 2491 me 25 5 843m 22m 12m S 0 1.5 0:05.68 chromium-browse
 1646 me 20 0 395m 21m 6992 S 0 1.5 2:08.84 gnome-panel
  883 root 20 0 215m 21m 7952 S 5 1.4 64:40.37 Xorg
12424 me 20 0 315m 20m 5124 S 0 1.4 1:18.50 python
 2609 me 20 0 839m 19m 11m S 0 1.3 0:00.89 chromium-browse
 2454 me 20 0 842m 16m 8908 S 0 1.1 0:00.52 chromium-browse

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