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1 • Memory (by cor on 2021-07-26 00:58:59 GMT from United States)
I have 32GB installed. As a rule, about 8% is taken using Plasma desktop, Firefox, Thunderbird, and SMPlayer. When editing audio or running VMs memory used can reach about 20-30%. I haven't had any memory issues since the switch to Linux about 20 years ago.
2 • memory usage (by vern on 2021-07-26 01:09:22 GMT from United States)
As far as memory usage I like to use:
vmstat -s
It shows more pertinent info for me.
3 • Memory Question (by Adam Drake on 2021-07-26 01:51:57 GMT from United States)
Sounds like maybe the application in the question might need to update its Java heap size limit or something similar...of course that would only be a temporary fix in the case of a memory leak.
4 • Memory Question (by Jules on 2021-07-26 02:36:52 GMT from Australia)
Memory issues in Linux - never had one as it purrs like a cat with 8GB or more on my 4 Linux PCs. The 4 PCs are Oracle Linux (24GB), MX Linux (16GB), Linux Mint (16GB) and Manjaro (8GB).
Currently, I am building another Linux PC from old parts to run FreeBSD and for play reasons, but a work in progress.
The only memory issues I have as my own in remember CLI parameters in running commands.
Long live linux..
5 • My memory seems ok...I think... (by Tom Joad on 2021-07-26 02:56:25 GMT from Germany)
Below is what I am using at present...
lothario@nemesis-mint19:~$ free -htl
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15G 1.9G 11G 112M 2.6G 13G
Low: 15G 4.6G 11G
High: 0B 0B 0B
Swap: 979M 0B 979M
Total: 16G 1.9G 11G
I am guessing that is in the 11-20% range though I did not do the math...
6 • free --human --giga Manjaro dual-boot (by Bob on 2021-07-26 03:20:31 GMT from United States)
Manjaro Cinnamon:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 3.8G 408M 3.0G 75M 416M 3.1G
Manjaro Xfce
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 3.8G 252M 3.0G 110M 542M 3.2
7 • Memory (by Romane on 2021-07-26 03:47:21 GMT from Australia)
I recently upgraded my beastie from 8Gb to 20Gb. At 8Gb, changing desktops from the one I mostly work on would result in a long (did I say l o o o n g?) wait accompanied by disk thrashing (nature of where I live causing a way of working that is extremely unfriendly to a NVME drive, I use the NVME just for the operating system, and everything else is on spinning disks). Since adding the 16Gb stick of memory with one of my 4Gb sticks, this does not happen any more. Everything just "happens" without waiting. Me now one happy chappy.
8 • mammory use (by papapito on 2021-07-26 04:02:34 GMT from Australia)
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.13.4-arch2-1
DE: Plasma 5.22.3
WM: KWin
Memory: 670MiB / 32026MiB
~2%
When i answered this i was browsing rss in terminal, browser (with email/rss/extensions) adds another 600-900MiB usually and I had just rebooted so I may be cheating...
9 • Misty water-colored memories of the way we were... (by Andy Prough on 2021-07-26 04:42:57 GMT from Switzerland)
I tend to use one or more VMs at a time on my two main systems, and so I often go over 60%-70% of memory usage.
But on my minimalist systems, I can keep it consistently under 200mb and still do most everything I want (no VMs of course). One reason I use fully libre systems is that they tend to use fewer resources.
10 • memory usage differs (by Trihexagonal on 2021-07-26 06:31:00 GMT from United States)
I voted 41-50% for my FreeBSD 12.2 box with 8GB RAM.
My Kali 2021.2 box with 4GB RAM is at 25% memory used.
FreeBSD sees memory not used as memory wasted:
last pid: 12345; load averages: 0.52, 0.33, 0.20 up 5+00:17:03 01:27:13
52 processes: 1 running, 51 sleeping
CPU: 1.3% user, 0.0% nice, 0.5% system, 0.0% interrupt, 98.2% idle
Mem: 720M Active, 1085M Inact, 117M Laundry, 1280M Wired, 717M Buf, 4696M Free
Swap: 3852M Total, 45M Used, 3807M Free, 1% Inuse
11 • RAMory (by Australia says sorry for OS's on 2021-07-26 06:58:18 GMT from Australia)
Who watches their memory usage? Don't you just get enough RAM for things to work smoothishly? Nowadays that's about 4GB for average OS's. 8GB is even better. 16GB and you're laughing.
12 • RAM vs Processor: Which is More Important? (by Tech in San Diego on 2021-07-26 07:22:57 GMT from United States)
There has always been this ongoing debate over RAM vs. Processor for as long as I can remember. Some people will prefer one over the other based on their computational needs, but ideally, you want a good balance of both adequate RAM and a capable processor. It's been my experience that a processor with multiple cores wins out in many cases vs. throwing more RAM in a machine. Linux is very frugal on RAM and for my personal scenario, I can get by with 16GB, more than that is just a waste.
What is unique about the Linux kernel however, is how it takes advantage of multiple cores and threads. Even a mid range CPU has six or eight cores with 12 or 16 threads. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of applications, video editing and CAD applications, that will gobble up as much RAM as you have available.
I always ask myself that age old question before purchasing a machine, what are you going to use your computer for? It will always be a balancing act.
All the Best!
Tech in San Diego
13 • Memory usage (by James on 2021-07-26 10:22:17 GMT from United States)
Useless poll. Unless you know what a person has open and is using the memory usages tells you nothing. OS at rest, memory with a web browser open, web browser open with multiple tabs and sites, multiple programs open and preforming tasks? All would give you different usage.
14 • memmaker (by Tad Strange on 2021-07-26 13:49:41 GMT from Canada)
For me I consider 16GB to be the minimum in an all purpose desktop.
Firefox alone can suck that up over the course of a week between having half a hundred open tabs and the memory leaks (system slow? Time to re-start Firefox!).
I won't spec a system for anyone else with less than 8GB. Windows 10 alone can quickly hit the ceiling if there's only 4GB. Likewise 4GB Chromebooks I've found can easily run out of available memory (I've had them crash daily due to running out of memory. The ChromeOS being leaky AF).
15 • Amount of used memory (by Aritz on 2021-07-26 13:53:42 GMT from Spain)
You just caught me reading DW while I was heating up my computer with CFD simulations...
16 • Agree, silly poll (by CS on 2021-07-26 14:12:23 GMT from United States)
How much memory am I using? Do I have chromium open at the time or not? And tensorflow sure is a hungry boy.
IMO 32GB RAM is the bare minimum for a usable work system these days.
17 • Memory (by Ulisses from Brazil on 2021-07-26 14:43:05 GMT from Brazil)
The new Mint Cinnamon with just Transmission and Firefox with a couple of tabs open use 48% of mine 4GBs, 13 years old but very nice Vaio laptop. Works just great for me!
18 • Memory (by David on 2021-07-26 15:55:50 GMT from United Kingdom)
With OpenOffice and PaleMoon running under PCLinuxOS with Xfce, I have
Total: 3.7Gi Free: 2Gi
When some-one says they need a 16GB minimum, I wonder what they get up to! Windows 10 needs 8GB? Who cares — I wouldn't buy computer with Windows installed.
19 • @18 (by Tad Strange on 2021-07-26 17:19:36 GMT from Canada)
And no one will ever need more than 640k...
I advise, rather than proselytise.
20 • memory usage (not on common ones) (by memoRAM on 2021-07-26 17:26:30 GMT from Hungary)
All talks abouta stock linux or BSD and RAM-usage. But what about KISS, Bedrock Linux, T2 you can setup a so good one whit low usage.
Makulu1s Unity will be a question: low or high mem usage will be at the end. I hope low, but who knows.
Haiku: "we recommend at least a Pentium4 with 512 MiB of RAM" - hmm good
ReactOS - "RAM: at least 64 MB, recommended 256 MB, and even 2048 MB if you want to test large software suites or bundles." - I think we met the winner :D
Show me other OS, please. THX
21 • Memory Usage (by Anon on 2021-07-26 17:36:52 GMT from Philippines)
I have 6GB of RAM and 2GB of swap on an ancient entry-level laptop that runs Linux Mint and it usually sits at 10-20% memory usage when I'm not doing anything while climbing up to 40-50% when I'm doing my daily tasks. Things are always pretty smooth and I've never had any problems.
22 • Minimum ram... (by Friar Tux on 2021-07-26 18:51:14 GMT from Canada)
@16 (CS) "IMO 32GB RAM is the bare minimum for a usable work system these days."
Wait, what?? I've got 8 GBs on my HP Pavilion which I usually start up at 6:30 am and shut down at 10:30 pm - daily. (I'm retired and do most of my reading through Vivaldi browser, my writing, and image work on local apps.) Don't really care about RAM usage as I've never had an issue. Also, it's JUST 8 GBs of RAM - no swap.
23 • Memory usage (by Jesse on 2021-07-26 19:38:56 GMT from Canada)
I find it interesting hearing how many people want 8GB or more for running a few desktop applications and a web browser. None of my machines have more than 6GB and my RAM is usually only 35% full. That includes running a web browser, e-mail, office suite, music player, video player, text editor, a couple of consoles, probably GIMP. Basically ten applications running on a full desktop environment and it all runs in about 2-3GB of memory.
24 • RAM Usage, LE9 Kernel Patches (by Justin on 2021-07-26 19:57:45 GMT from United States)
I run a netbook with 2G RAM using overlayfs on the root and tmpfs for other folders (a little redundant, but I want to run off tmpfs when doing updates when I bring the overlayfs down). Unless I have _lots_ of video tabs open, the machine does just fine. I used it for web browsing exclusively.
I have a different 2G RAM netbook I installed KDE on (I want to show off how good Linux can look on an ancient netbook). It worked great except when I had like 4-5 Firefox tabs open, I'd hit the memory limit. Adding 1GB of swap fixed it, but I don't like swap, so I just installed something else.
I read about the LE9 kernel patches. I hope this hits mainline soon (like at least before another decade of slow dev)! Those patches I expect would make a big difference, and I've been meaning to try again with the Xanmod kernel and maybe zram compression.
I used to run my whole life on Windows XP with 1.75GB of RAM, running programs, browsers, and VMs (though I liked to pick things like Puppy that could use 256MB instead of 512MB for another XP). People forget those things. My first netbook is more powerful than that 32-bit machine, and I have developed the same mental blocks as everyone else that maybe it can't do much because it's _only_ got 2GB of RAM and an N3050 processor (that's twice my single core!).
Learn how not to waste, learn how to never want.
25 • Memory (by penguinx86 on 2021-07-26 20:52:21 GMT from United States)
I run Linux Mint Xfce on an old Dell laptop with 8gb of RAM. Typically, only 2-3gb of memory is in use. Sometimes it uses more if I use Virtualbox to run a guest OS. I rarely see any swap space in use. I had 16gb of memory in this laptop for a while, but I never saw more than 7gb in use. So I went back to 8gb and I really can't see any difference.
26 • Opinion Poll - What percentage of your computer's memory is used? (by frc on 2021-07-26 21:59:09 GMT from Brazil)
I was dualbooting 12 distros with KDE Plasma until January 2020, in a very old 2 x Core2 Duo with 3,8 GiB of RAM, and it worked. The real problem was its old iGPU Intel 82G33/G31, which didn't allow me to run, e.g., GoogleEarth.
Now, with a new hardware, it was using 13,6% (2,11 of 15,5 GiB of RAM) and zero of 10,1 GiB swap, according to Conky 1.12.2 / Screenfetch 3.9.1, running Dolphin, Chrome (3 tabs), Kate (7 tabs), Konsole and Gwenview.
27 • Percentage of memory used (by Ghost Sixtyseven on 2021-07-26 23:14:14 GMT from United Kingdom)
OS: Void Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.12.19_1
DE: Xfce 4.16
Memory: 1820MiB / 15946MiB
28 • poll (by dave on 2021-07-26 23:31:37 GMT from United States)
MX Linux (Xfce) w/ 8gb
At the moment I read the poll all I had open was 2 firefox tabs (1 playing music on YouTube, 1 browsing Distrowatch) .. usage was at 18%
The OS/DE idly sucks up about 6% with apt-notifier and Xfce components at the top of the consumption, eating up 75mb chunks here and there. I know it's just 6% and I have used Xfce on and off for many years, but I consider it to be pretty bloated nowadays. I'll be returning to IceWM when I can get my lazy butt to do the work and probably have the idle memory usage down to about 1-2%
29 • memory (by Titus_Groan on 2021-07-27 06:21:11 GMT from New Zealand)
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7814 3497 1186 167 3130 3851
FF(12 tabs), IRC client, terminal, Freecad (Appimage) running + some Plasma DE widgets.
30 • Zephix (by Jeff on 2021-07-27 08:03:33 GMT from United States)
Tried to go to the site linked for Zephix, the latest addition to the waiting list.
Browser said it was not secure and would not go there.
31 • Zephix (by Dave Postles on 2021-07-27 11:41:48 GMT from United Kingdom)
Firefox did not prevent me from accessing the linked site. I started to download Zephix, but aborted on noticing @30, It looks interesting, but I'd like some more comment on its suitability, please.
32 • Zephix (by John on 2021-07-27 18:48:10 GMT from Malta)
Downloaded Zephix and it loads fast and has many useful apps. Legacy BIOS mode. Tried on VirtualBox. Recommend trying. Site is loading securely for me.
33 • RAM Usage, LE9 Kernel Patches (by Vukota on 2021-07-27 19:49:41 GMT from Serbia)
@24: I am as well looking at using LE9 patched kernel or Xanmod kernel and zram compression for swap in RAM for older laptops with only 2GB of RAM I still have. I hope there will be soon some distro to include them by default or at least offer them as an automatic alternative for older computers.
34 • Zephix (by John on 2021-07-28 07:54:53 GMT from Malta)
I happened to visit Zephix website again this morning and it seems that version 2 has been released and supports UEFI booting now. They also added modules that can be downloaded online. @30 and @31 please note...
35 • me me memory (by fonz on 2021-07-28 10:26:09 GMT from Indonesia)
on my lin PCs, 300 from cold boot on MX, arch and puppy with dont-know-what-to-think-of XFCE, but still good enough for the most part. when actually doing stuff, it rarely exceeds 3.
wandows OTOH really needs at leat 8 nowadays. from cold boot with a non tweaked system, it uses just under 2. i too dont like swapping so setting swappiness to 1 as a last resort (pagefile or whatever its called in wandowsnese). unfortunately when running heavy duty stuff on wandows, even that fails. the main working PC (im a contractor, waifus an architect) has 8 on wan7 and 32 on wan10. friends say 11 is worse...
@24 is right, 'learn not to waste'. ive always wondered how people can say 'unused RAM is wasted RAM.' wonder if theyve tried doing something like gaming, browsing ETC. major browsers nowadays are literally kitchen sinks and all. i also like to say 'a byte saved is a byte earned' for literally everything PC related.
also to last weeks answer, electron was a bad idea from the start ;P
36 • 55% used (by Björn Fries on 2021-07-29 19:14:00 GMT from Germany)
free -g
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 754 415 295 0 43 334
Swap: 0 0 0
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