Possibly related:

screen shot of memory usage by app, showing Firefox using over 18GB of RAM

I also don’t understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.

  • miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    It’s already been explained elsewhere, but the cache can be free, as needed - that’s how linux works.
    There’s 57+ GB available ram, yet.

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    3 months ago

    every chat app might use ~1GB because most of them are electron apps, which all spawn their own instance of chromium