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screen shot of memory usage by app, showing Firefox using over 18GB of RAM

I also don’t understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.

  • @Dave@lemmy.nz
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    0•1 year ago

    This site says Linux calls cached RAM “free” but in my screen shot it’s definitely being shown as “used”. I guess this is a choice of this app?

      • @Dave@lemmy.nz
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        0•1 year ago

        Well top currently shows:

        MiB Mem :  64076.1 total,   2630.3 free,  51614.1 used,  34046.9 buff/cache     
MiB Swap:   4096.0 total,      2.3 free,   4093.7 used.  12462.0 avail Mem

        While the “Mission Center” app shows:

        67GB RAM total, 54GB RAM in use. 12GB available. 29GB cached.

        • @mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Subtract cached and free from total to get actual usage Htop shows visually though with cached as yellow or so I think you are using about 30 gb ram.

          Honestly, apart from firefox, what are you running? Does that include vms? I have 8GiB ram(7.1 usable) and uses like 1.8gb on idle and about 5-6.5gb on my personal highest usage

          • @Dave@lemmy.nz
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            0•1 year ago

            No VMs. The RAM usage kept climbing until I was crashed out to the login screen and lost everything that was open. It seemed to be a particular website that gobbled RAM.

              • @Dave@lemmy.nz
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                0•1 year ago

                It sure does. I’ve never cracked 30GB RAM before. The site is doing something weird, for sure. Though I feel like Firefox should catch this before the OS crashes.

                • branch
                  2•1 year ago

                  The OS crasching before Firefox seems weird. The OS should kill the offending process to free up memory for its own use. I wonder what went wrong.