Just curious, what were you doing with Firefox to pull anywhere near that much RAM? Right now I've got a few tabs open along with Steam/Discord/Spotify/a few terminal windows/Helvum and I'm not using 3gb for the entire system according to htop. Just curious how many tabs you have open to pull 32GB from Firefox.

[–] mohKohn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it's not mainly how many but how long. I leave my desktop running for weeks, and there was a while when clearing Firefox's cache was the main reason I needed to restart. I do leave something like ~100 open at a time.

htop/top are a bit tricky because Firefox spawns a bunch of sub processes, so it's frequently an undercount; I forget whether htop accounts for that.

[–] yourdogsnipples@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I had the same problem - this extension saved my RAM: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do leave something like ~100 open at a time

That's... that's too many tabs.

[–] mohKohn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Think of it as transitory bookmarks. It's something like 20 tabs across 5 different windows for completely different contexts: dev pages in one desktop, work google docs in another, personal email/music/etc in another, gaming in a fourth, social media in a fifth, etc. It means I can easily context switch when I need to without having to dredge the exact things I need out of my own memory.

[–] Johanno@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well on Linux we use all the ram we have and give it free when needed

[–] mohKohn@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, so hypothetically, yes, but when I'm running scripts, frequently their memory usage can cause my computer to freeze if I don't immediately have that memory available. and those are the actual reason I need 64GB, not feeding Firefox's insatiable hunger for RAM.