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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There’s no trophy you get at the end of your life for “most cumulative ram left idle”

Some people like to use more than 1 app you know.

Also, RAM is never ever idle. It is used as filesystem cache when not used by programs thus speeding up read accesses significantly.

[–] nicoweio 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just to nitpick, RAM is usually not idle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Alright, let's nitpick! No, it is never ever idle, every few cycles is a refresh cycle, which is work.

[–] nicoweio 6 points 9 months ago

It's great that you mention this, but this is a different layer of abstraction than what we were previously talking about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Honestly even with more than 1 application open it shouldn't be an issue. Maybe with a really old computer, but anything modern really should handle an electron app just fine