• crispy_kilt@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    There’s no trophy you get at the end of your life for “most cumulative ram left idle”

    Some people like to use more than 1 app you know.

    Also, RAM is never ever idle. It is used as filesystem cache when not used by programs thus speeding up read accesses significantly.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly even with more than 1 application open it shouldn’t be an issue. Maybe with a really old computer, but anything modern really should handle an electron app just fine

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        1 year ago

        Alright, let’s nitpick! No, it is never ever idle, every few cycles is a refresh cycle, which is work.

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          It’s great that you mention this, but this is a different layer of abstraction than what we were previously talking about.