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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.

  • @miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    It’s already been explained elsewhere, but the cache can be free, as needed - that’s how linux works.
    There’s 57+ GB available ram, yet.

    • @Dave@lemmy.nzOP
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      271 month ago

      Yip, got that now. I misunderstood, as it’s different to Windows, which shows cached memory as free since it’s available to apps as needed.

      • @Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
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        41 month ago

        You could probably configure your system monitor to show available memory - that is memory available given that cache can be dropped - rather than free memory that should always be as close to zero as possible.

        • @Dave@lemmy.nzOP
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          31 month ago

          Well in a turn of events, the stupid photo printing website I was using just kept filling RAM up until it was full then GNOME crashed me back to the login page.