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.
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