Chrome debugger simulate memory limit - google-chrome

I am trying to debug out of memory issues when my JS code runs on an old ipad
Is there a way to set a simulated memory limit in Chrome dev tools so that I will get Out of memory exceptions etc when it is breached ?

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View the contents of memory footprint of a chrome tab

I've got a memory problem in my application. Symptoms are weird: js heap stays stable at around 30 mb, while memory footprint of a browser tab is growing over time out of bounds and eventually crashes entire mac os (I'm looking at memory footprint numbers provided by chrome's task manager). It takes several hours and I can reproduce it consistently. As heap review doesn't give me any clues at all, I'd like to examine the memory allocations for the browser tab, where my application is running. Does chrome provide any tools for that?

How much easier on memory and CPU is headless chrome as compared to regular chrome?

I have seen many benchmarks measuring the CPU and memory utilization used by headless Chrome and PhantomJS and other headless browsers. However, I have never seen one comparing headed/regular Chrome and headless Chrome.
How much more efficient is headless Chrome than regular Chrome when doing automation/scraping on a large scale? (80 browser windows open at once, for example).

Memory leak in Task Manager even if Chrome Heap Snapshot shows zero delta

I am investigating a JS memory leak issue using Chrome DevTools. Using heap snapshots and doing comparison, I was able to root cause the component responsible for leaking the memory.
Problem I am seeing is that after the fix, even if Chrome DevTools shows no leak, Windows Task Manager shows increase in memory with usage.
Below are the heap snapshots of before and after fix.
Before fix:
After fix:
Am I missing anything here? Is Chrome DevTools somehow showing wrong result?
I read a similar thread here. But it isn't of much help.

Memory is bloated but freed after closing chrome developer tools

I'm fighting a leak on a page, which makes large AJAX requests and replaces page content once in several seconds.
If I open the page in Chrome Dev Tools, I see that memory usage grows over time (from one memory snapshot to another). There are no explicit leaks on the page (the three-snapshot technique shows there are none)
According to Google Dev tools, the memory accumulated under GC Roots -> "Global handles", in some map. As I said, closing Chrome Dev Tools result in disappearing of this memory (i.e. memory usage drops from 600+Mb to 40Mb for the page). At the same time, pressing "GC" does not help, the memory remains in place.
But if the page is remained open for several hours, it may eat gigabytes and become unresponsive.
Google Chrome version is Version 60.0.3112.90 (Official Build) (64-bit) on MacOS 10.12.6.
Any hint on how to fix/avoid such memory bloat is appreciated.

Recording memory leak in Google Chrome using Ionic in browser

How can I record memory leaks in Google Chrome similar to what is being performed in the link bewow?
https://github.com/driftyco/ionic/issues/1096
I have an Ionic app that runs embedded video, after clicking back and forth for over 10 pages during intense clicking it crashes. The pages viewed are embedded mp4s, I suspect there is some memory leakage as listed in the link above? Just need to find a way to test it
Following the post below from Ant, here is the memory log from Google Canary
http://i.imgur.com/QrwTNwe.jpg. Do the nodes and listeners look unusual?
Get chrome canary then open developer tools and click on profiles.
Using the tools there you can take heap snapshots and compare memory allocations between snapshots to see what is staying in memory or you can record heap allocations which records memory allocation in real time on a timeline so you can dig in and find where memory is not being released.
https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/javascript-memory-profiling
There are some very good guides on the technicalities of doing the above if you google how to find memory leaks.