One of the things I have seen is with browsers they have a flexible memory
footprint. As such they will look at availability of free ram and kind of
bloat to fit in order to cache more and provide a "better" browsing
experience.

There are some under the hood settings that may allow you to restrict this
behavior. Mozilla I found trats each individual profile as its own instance
so it swells super fast. Chrome seems to keep multiple profile awareness
better and considers all profiles together. Eve though it takes more it
usually gives it back more readily.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020, 7:49 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Memory usage is getting frustrating for me, as whether I use 64gb of ram,
> or 128gb, I still tend to exhaust memory on my system.  My laptop currently
> has 64gb, and started freaking out this morning, to find I was hitting
> oom's again with browsing and some general use as wake up.
>
> Trying to figure out with htop what is using all my memory, firefox was a
> big consumer, using ~25gb of ram once killed.  Yeah, it's like that.
> Chrome was typically worse.  I use 6 profiles, as I have to for different
> companies I consult for, mostly due to different gsuite accounts and
> different o365 accounts that will not play nice in a same profile.  Same
> for Chrome.  I figure I can't be the only person that does this, perhaps
> so, but the memory utilization with with only a few tabs on each is
> astounding.
>
> I tend to run several VM's at a time, a full instance of windoze10 or two
> with 4-8gb of ram work fine.
>
> I use pluma text editor a lot as the gedit fork from mint, which I'll find
> uses 3-4gb of memory with a few dozen text files open.  Of text.  Doesn't
> seem to be worth a few gig of ram.
>
> Libreoffice itself tends to use 3-4gb of memory keeping a dozen or two
> files open, which again flipping between several customers, I tend to work
> on, review, etc constantly.
>
> Even on boot, kde tends to use ~3.5gb of memory, and after running for a
> few week or two, with everything else killed, will start consuming ~9gb
> with nothing else running.  No idea where it goes.
>
> My question is how the heck do others run linux with only 4-8gb of ram on
> a "normal" system?  Most linux users are likely IT professionals like
> myself, just curious what the heck I'm doing wrong.
>
> -mb
>
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