I get not wanting bloated programs but only using a small portiom of your RAM isn’t a goal to aim for.
If you’re on Linux, The kernel is likely using all available RAM. It uses that space to store the page cache because reading from RAM is faster than reading from disk.
You could have all of that RAM go unused if you wanted, but your system would suffer.
My OS uses about 700MB when I log in from a reboot, then I immediately load ~15GB of terribly optimized browser tabs, mostly for work (teams, google voice, discord, outlook, etc)
With CPU as my current bottleneck, I haven’t went over 15GB while gaming and rendering fullhd vids. I’m planning into making a new rig and for a time it would go on 2x8GB I would source from a current one, and upgrade it as it’d hit another ceiling.
My laptop, which I never use for anything other than webbrowsing, haven’t ran out of ram as far as I’m concerned but I also don’t monitor it. My “gaming” rig will swallow whatever ram I give it while playing BeamNG.drive
There must be more tabs. As soon as a critical mass of tabs are all in existence at the same time, the tab god will be born. This nascent entity will reshape the world, will purify existence
Alright Linux guys… how much RAM do you use on a normal day? Not looking at you power guys who are running every damn thing to max out your 128GB…
I have 32GB but rarely hit over 8GB, probably less, unless I’m running some serious apps like graphics.
I got that 32GB because of Win10 to give me more comfort room. Now I don’t need it as much running Linux.
I get not wanting bloated programs but only using a small portiom of your RAM isn’t a goal to aim for.
If you’re on Linux, The kernel is likely using all available RAM. It uses that space to store the page cache because reading from RAM is faster than reading from disk.
You could have all of that RAM go unused if you wanted, but your system would suffer.
My OS uses about 700MB when I log in from a reboot, then I immediately load ~15GB of terribly optimized browser tabs, mostly for work (teams, google voice, discord, outlook, etc)
For discord i suggest to install Dorion, it is a discord client, it uses like ~22mb of ram on my computer
With CPU as my current bottleneck, I haven’t went over 15GB while gaming and rendering fullhd vids. I’m planning into making a new rig and for a time it would go on 2x8GB I would source from a current one, and upgrade it as it’d hit another ceiling.
17/64GB. Tabs go brrrrr. It would also help if I closed some of the apps I have used after I am done.
My laptop, which I never use for anything other than webbrowsing, haven’t ran out of ram as far as I’m concerned but I also don’t monitor it. My “gaming” rig will swallow whatever ram I give it while playing BeamNG.drive
Vivaldi, which is Chromium based, is a hungry hungry hippo, but also running qBittorrent (2,7 GB), so I’m around 10 GB / 64 GB atm.
I’m on KDE btw.
I usually stay under 8. I have 16 but the rest is just cinsumed by browser tabs
16g of ram in my Linux gaming rig that play Heros of the Storm and Deadlock on. No issues hardware side, I’m looking at you deadlock.
There must be more tabs. As soon as a critical mass of tabs are all in existence at the same time, the tab god will be born. This nascent entity will reshape the world, will purify existence
I’m using 7/96G right now.
I have possibly over-spec’d.
Sell 64GB and retire early!