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screen shot of memory usage by app, showing Firefox using over 18GB of RAM

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

  • Dave@lemmy.nzOP
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    2 days ago

    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?

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        2 days ago

        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:

        67GB RAM total, 54GB RAM in use. 12GB available. 29GB cached.

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          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

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            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.

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                22 hours ago

                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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            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.

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              13 hours ago

              Oh fuck… JS developers getting lazy again :( sorry about that