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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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    01 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.com
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      11 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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        01 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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            01 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.