why the hell is this so heavy

7 months ago by KillDash9 to c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt

I was using 3 Firefox browser tabs and it just decided to use 4 gigabytes of memory

infeeeee 64 points 7 months ago

In firefox you can see which pages and addons use the memory on the about:processes page, shortcut is shift+esc.

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MonkderVierte 38 points 7 months ago

See? Webbrowsers are now their own operating systems.

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calango 8 points 7 months ago

thanks friend.

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infeeeee 22 points 7 months ago

What was the culprit?

Also this is a kind of joke/meme community on IT topics, questions like these should go to !techsupport@lemmy.world

Except if it's your gentoo box running on live rat brain, and your problem is why it uses 3 bytes more than it should. For questions like that this is the correct community.

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calango 8 points 7 months ago

What was the culprit?

Also this is a kind of joke/meme community on IT topics, questions like these should go to !techsupport@lemmy.world

Except if it’s your gentoo box running on live rat brain, and your problem is why it uses 3 bytes more than it should. For questions like that this is the correct community.

sorry friend, lately browsers have been very heavy and I used Firefox because it is light, so now nothing is more meaningful

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dejected_warp_core 2 points 7 months ago

I just tried this. FML, Discord needs to go on a diet.

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scrubbles 35 points 7 months ago

I never understand why people upset about processes using ram. It's there to be used. If it's not being used then things are not being cached properly.

Now, if there are other higher priority processes and the browser doesn't give back the tam, that's different. From your screenshot, why wouldn't you want it using the ram? Otherwise it'll cache to disk and you'll have a worse experience.

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calango 3 points 7 months ago

your argument seems right, you have a good point

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remon 17 points 7 months ago

Rookie numbers!

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calango 5 points 7 months ago

by caesar's beards, that's insane

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sukhmel 3 points 7 months ago

Depends on the total amount, they might have 16GB total then it is, they might have 128GB then not so much 😅

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Cevilia 16 points 7 months ago

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irelephant 11 points 7 months ago

Unused ram is wasted ram!

I once had an empty konsole take 3gb of ram one time.

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chasteinsect 9 points 7 months ago

9 tabs 2 windows 8 extensions

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IpsumLauren 8 points 7 months ago

Go to about:performance and find why.

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Evil_Shrubbery 8 points 7 months ago

You guys have RAM?? I just zram to my 20GB ATA HDD.

(but current horrors aside - you are fine imho, FF can show you usage per page, and that's prob cache with no CPU usage, super dependant on what the opened pages are)

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thenextguy 8 points 7 months ago

It may only be reserving that memory, but not actually using it yet.

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beeng 7 points 7 months ago

JavaScript coding practices

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NotASharkInAManSuit 7 points 7 months ago

🎶 “He ain’t heavy, he’s my browser.” 🎶