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As a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by GustavoM to c/[email protected]

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Title. Besides setting tmpfs to use 10GiB of it to store downloads.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

After boot, I'm using 2GB. I haven't noticed Linux doing the ram-hog thing like Windows at all. But Firefox is currently using 8GB.

Just restarted Firefox and it's using 2.5GB now. I think it stores a lot in ram from video.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

unused RAM is wasted RAM

[–] uis 10 points 1 year ago

Average web developer principle

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A program that can run on 1GB but uses 2GB is more wasteful, OS and FS level caching and memory reclamation only work if the memory is available, and a program wasting it takes it from everything else, unused RAM is wasted, but so is RAM being used for no actual function.

Not to say programs cant use large amounts, but they should provide a level of functionality for the amount of memory used, and some programs of late have been more than a bit inefficient, in short, filling the RAM is good, but do make sure its actually being used.

[–] chitak166 -1 points 1 year ago

That means you should waste and occupy as much as possible? Lol.

I think less of anyone who treats 'sayings' like that as absolute fact. Small minds.

[–] uis 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How? After booting(and starting DE) I'm using about 700 megs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My DE is Gnome which uses a bit. Haven't really looked into it further, because I still have 62GB of ram free after startx. Haven't maxed it out yet.