This is from a fresh boot of the system, except sshd I have not started anything else. ram consumption used to be just 126-200 mb now it has jumped so significantly that I am concerned I might have unnecessarily bloated my system:
I intend to use the system as a local server with an optional fully featured WM(Hyprland which is installed, but this screenshot was taken before it was loaded) for occasional use.
Ram conservation is a top priority and I would like to know if such a big jump in usage is normal or are there is something wrong with my system config
Just download more RAM lol
We joke but zram swap works wonders on low resource systems sometimes
It just fucks your CPU usage
I rather let it fucks my CPU than let my whole computer fucks itself
I've used swap on my steamdeck for a while and it's really only improved performance in memory-bound situations when I've used it.
Not as badly as you'd expect, modern compression is pretty quick using the lz*'s and you're only expending cycles when you're hitting swap