2d ago

System requirements for me and not for thee

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

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https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
Electron apps are bullshit though.
- 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?
  
  Most likely, try running htop or top (can't remember which is which) in a terminal.
  
  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:
  
  free -m please
  
  The RAM use kept growing until it locked up and I got booted back to the login screen, losing everything unsaved. Now it's back to normal but when I run free -m the numbers match what's in the GUI.
  I'm pretty sure the culprit was a website for uploading photos for printing. Something odd about it, I did upload 1,000 photos at about 2GB total, but it was sucking up RAM Like crazy. Firefox was using some fifty-something GB of RAM.
  
  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
  
  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.
  
  That sounds like a memory leak.
  
  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.

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