Subj : Re: Browser tabs
To   : Spectre
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Mar 30 2022 09:36:32

  Re: Re: Browser tabs
  By: Spectre to boraxman on Wed Mar 30 2022 09:33 pm

 >  bo> My desktop computer has 8G of RAM, which I got in 2009.  I have rarely run out
 >  bo> RAM, and the only times I have, it is when there was a memory
 >  bo> leak or I ran a ramdisk and filled it up.
 > 
 >  bo> I do run Linux, and avoid running electron apps, and bloated stuff.  The most
 >  bo> bloated program I would run is Firefox or Brave.
 > 
 > No idea what electron apps are :)  I use linux for the server end of things
 > and its still quite happy in 4Gb, strictly in CLI.  My user space if not an Apple I
 > is usually Win7 and there's more software there that is happier
 > with a lot more memory.
 > 
 > How do you run out of RAM if you're using a ramdisk? Using tmpfs its a static
 > size....<ponder>...
 > 
 > Spec
 > 
 > 
 > *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]

Electron is a framework which essentially loads a whole Chromium engine in order to
launch applications. It is quite resource hungry. Some developers like it because
developing with Electron is a lot like developing web apps, or so I have heard.

If you use a big ramdisk, you have less RAM for doing actual computing. ie. if you
have 1000 megs and you load a ramdisk worth 600, now your applications have only 400
megs for allocating memory.


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