Comment 7 for bug 608538

Chromium:

top - 23:45:28 up 14:08, 6 users, load average: 0.28, 0.44, 0.26
Tasks: 217 total, 1 running, 216 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.0%us, 1.5%sy, 2.1%ni, 95.1%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1529884k total, 1460904k used, 68980k free, 10272k buffers
Swap: 1638624k total, 27588k used, 1611036k free, 453364k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 6273 me 20 0 1362m 121m 22m S 0 8.2 5:05.59 amarok
12349 me 25 5 872m 61m 12m S 1 4.1 0:05.95 chromium-browse
12273 me 20 0 547m 60m 24m S 0 4.0 0:11.30 chromium-browse
12354 me 25 5 871m 55m 12m S 1 3.7 0:05.26 chromium-browse
12322 me 25 5 869m 50m 12m S 0 3.4 0:04.00 chromium-browse
 1505 me 20 0 265m 42m 9440 S 0 2.8 0:24.72 python
  925 root 20 0 238m 41m 25m S 2 2.8 7:07.09 Xorg
 1536 me 20 0 321m 41m 7644 S 1 2.7 3:00.18 compiz
12327 me 25 5 858m 41m 12m S 0 2.7 0:02.87 chromium-browse
12297 me 20 0 850m 37m 12m S 0 2.5 0:01.58 chromium-browse
12302 me 25 5 853m 33m 11m S 0 2.2 0:02.18 chromium-browse
12307 me 25 5 854m 32m 11m S 1 2.2 0:01.78 chromium-browse
 6919 me 20 0 169m 31m 3464 S 1 2.1 2:19.11 amuled
12312 me 25 5 850m 28m 11m S 0 1.9 0:01.61 chromium-browse
 6904 root 25 5 36488 28m 620 S 0 1.9 0:11.25 moblock
12344 me 25 5 785m 27m 12m S 0 1.8 0:01.15 chromium-browse
 1551 me 20 0 280m 27m 9256 S 0 1.8 0:07.37 gnome-panel
12334 me 25 5 847m 26m 11m S 0 1.8 0:01.14 chromium-browse
12339 me 25 5 847m 26m 11m S 1 1.8 0:01.18 chromium-browse
12369 me 20 0 850m 26m 8888 S 0 1.8 0:04.07 chromium-browse
 1555 me 20 0 499m 21m 11m S 0 1.4 0:07.84 nautilus
11607 me 20 0 256m 21m 14m S 0 1.4 0:01.10 gedit
 1711 me 20 0 252m 18m 8292 S 1 1.2 0:30.93 gnome-terminal
 6283 me 20 0 422m 18m 10m S 0 1.2 0:02.38 kded4
 6313 me 20 0 381m 16m 10m S 0 1.1 0:00.80 kglobalaccel
 1671 me 20 0 225m 16m 5620 S 0 1.1 0:02.10 python
 6326 me 20 0 378m 15m 9.9m S 0 1.1 0:01.03 knotify4
 1841 me 20 0 99.6m 15m 2812 S 0 1.1 0:01.16 mutt
12455 me 20 0 175m 15m 6912 S 0 1.0 0:00.51 emacs
12364 me 20 0 839m 15m 8896 S 0 1.0 0:00.36 chromium-browse
 1625 me 20 0 414m 14m 8780 S 0 1.0 0:03.38 clock-applet
12379 me 20 0 840m 14m 8968 S 0 1.0 0:00.21 chromium-browse
12374 me 20 0 839m 14m 8988 S 0 1.0 0:00.24 chromium-browse
 1628 me 20 0 277m 13m 8760 S 0 0.9 0:01.64 gweather-applet
12359 me 20 0 775m 13m 8172 S 0 0.9 0:00.18 chromium-browse
12384 me 20 0 839m 12m 7844 S 0 0.8 0:00.14 chromium-browse
 1564 me 20 0 241m 12m 7620 S 0 0.8 0:01.18 nm-applet

And chromium's own task manager gives:
     Memory
Browser Private Proportional
Chromium
390,740k 48,030k

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