I experienced a similar situation many years ago, when I installed 32 MiB of RAM to my desktop computer. Sadly, then came Mozilla (still not Firefox, but already departed from Netscape) and used all my RAM to load a couple of web pages. I had to look elsewhere until I could afford more RAM.
Yup. I have 16 GB, and one day I checked, after a couple of hours of use, my system was up to using a whopping 2 GB of RAM.
Oh, but those remaining 14 GB is used for disk cache, right? Nope, that's 14 GB free memory, with an additional 1.4 GB (out of the 2 GB) used for disk cache.
Meaning the running system was using something like 600 MB, including userspace, kernel, X, video ram (my system has shared video memory).
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not sure where these takes are coming from about browser ram usage. Firefox in particular. Maybe I'm not going to the right bloated website? Or maybe my ad blocking is preventing the memory leak inducing ad crap. I've got 2 browsers both with many tabs open, music etc. Libre Writer, Libre Calc, Steam, and my chat/password utilities going and I'm using 11GB of my 32.
It's true and it's exactly as it should be. An OS shouldn't be using that much.
Really, if you disable all that stupid extra crap, even Windows isn't too bad. Linux can definitely optimize better if one tries hard enough. A good Xfce setup helps a lot. (Or LXQT for that matter.)
Honestly, right now the only thing you need 32GB for is stuff that is written really badly...
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Yup. I have 16 GB, and one day I checked, after a couple of hours of use, my system was up to using a whopping 2 GB of RAM.
Oh, but those remaining 14 GB is used for disk cache, right? Nope, that's 14 GB free memory, with an additional 1.4 GB (out of the 2 GB) used for disk cache.
Meaning the running system was using something like 600 MB, including userspace, kernel, X, video ram (my system has shared video memory).
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Really, if you disable all that stupid extra crap, even Windows isn't too bad. Linux can definitely optimize better if one tries hard enough. A good Xfce setup helps a lot. (Or LXQT for that matter.)
Honestly, right now the only thing you need 32GB for is stuff that is written really badly...
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