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by jcelerier 3083 days ago
> I'm running on an 8GB Linux box without swap and never even come close to running out of memory. If I don't have any VMs running, then it's pretty unusual for me to use much more than 1-2 gigs. It's interesting... one of my colleagues has serious problems with performance because he keeps running out of memory -- and I don't think he's doing anything unusual.

64gb here and 40gb used. Firefox alone uses 2 gigs with a mere ~30 tabs.
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gizzlon 3083 days ago
I run KDE, Firefox, Slack (browser based app), Chromium, VS Code (browser based app) (plus Gvim, shell etc) on Arch and it's currently steady at 3.9 GB (of 16)

Edit: Also be sure it's actually used: https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

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Doxin 3082 days ago
Browsers have a tendency to use some percentage of available RAM. Firefox using 40gigs on a 64gig machine doesn't mean it'll try to use 40gigs on a 8gig machine.
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