@GustavoM@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 6 months agoAs a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram?message-square56fedilinkarrow-up1104file-text
arrow-up1104message-squareAs a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram?@GustavoM@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square56fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@NotAnArdvark@lemmy.calinkfedilink11•6 months agoHere’s a little script I’ve put in my $PATH, called memsum: #!/usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/ps -eo rss,command --sort -rss | egrep $1 | awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; sum +=hr} END {print sum}' Now you can go: memsum firefox or memsum whatever and see that, actually, apps use a ridiculous amount of memory these days. I can get Firefox up to 8GB by using things like Office 365.
minus-square@olafurp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink5•6 months agoBrowsers often use a lot of unreserved memory marked as free for whoever wants it. This is how you get 16GB browser sessions.
minus-square@Signfeld@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•6 months agoThanks for this, it’s so easy to just run this script when I’m curious. I got the warning “egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E” so I just swapped that command to get rid of the message.
Here’s a little script I’ve put in my $PATH, called
memsum:#!/usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/ps -eo rss,command --sort -rss | egrep $1 | awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; sum +=hr} END {print sum}'Now you can go:
memsum firefoxormemsum whateverand see that, actually, apps use a ridiculous amount of memory these days.I can get Firefox up to 8GB by using things like Office 365.
Browsers often use a lot of unreserved memory marked as free for whoever wants it. This is how you get 16GB browser sessions.
https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
Thanks for this, it’s so easy to just run this script when I’m curious.
I got the warning “egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E” so I just swapped that command to get rid of the message.