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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] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Here's a little script I've put in my $PATH, called memsum:

#!/usr/bin/bash
/usr/bin/ps -eo rss,command --sort -rss | egrep $1 | awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; sum +=hr} END {print sum}'

Now you can go: memsum firefox or memsum whatever and see that, actually, apps use a ridiculous amount of memory these days.

I can get Firefox up to 8GB by using things like Office 365.

[–] olafurp 5 points 1 year ago

Browsers often use a lot of unreserved memory marked as free for whoever wants it. This is how you get 16GB browser sessions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

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

Thanks for this, it's so easy to just run this script when I'm curious.

I got the warning "egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E" so I just swapped that command to get rid of the message.