Possibly related:

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.

  • @SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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    151 month ago

    I have a memory consumption issue with Ubuntu, because I stupidly set up the system to have 0 swap. This means under high memory pressure, the entire system could suddenly crash.

    To be fair, Windows isn’t a shining beacon either because whenever I attempt something very GPU intensive like running local LLMs the GPU overheats in a split second before the fans have time to spin up and the entire system shuts down.

    • @Dave@lemmy.nzOP
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      51 month ago

      How does that happen? Shouldn’t the GPU and CPU have thermal throttling so even under intense loads it just slows down to keep temps down?

      When I play games on my laptop the integrated graphics are at 100% most of the time but it doesn’t cause the system to crash.

      • @SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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        21 month ago

        So the system is a gaming laptop which might explain things. The CPU has liquid metal for cooling and a lower TDP so it’s fine. Whereas the GPU has a higher TGP and if ran hard draws like 120W. If the GPU fans are not already on this quickly overwhelming the GPU thermally.

        • @Dave@lemmy.nzOP
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          11 month ago

          Weird. If I was going to saturate my GPU, I’d pick an intensive game. Seems odd that a gaming laptop might get overwhelmed and shut off if a game is too intensive? Or is is something special about LLMs that make it the Archilles’ heel?

          • @SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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            21 month ago

            I’m not the type to run super intensive games, and even those games have plenty of warm up time in the form of a loading screen.

            That being said, I have had instances of my entire system shutting down due to a graphically intensive game, but it’s much rarer than when running a local LLM.