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by wezm 1068 days ago
Yes that’s a GNOME thing. It doesn’t take much to fill up 8Gb these days. I had a few different things running on other workspaces when I took that screenshot: Firefox with a bunch of tabs, CLion (usually good for ~2Gb), Obsidian, some other stuff.
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it's actually just virtual memory, neofetch uses that instead of real memory consumption and the scudo allocator tends to be heavy on reserving virtual memory (actually much more so in the default configuration used in e.g. android than in ours, as i've already put some effort into optimizing that), it's harmless in most configurations (the real memory usage is much lower) though i still plan to look into that more later