Subj : Re: Browser tabs
To   : Spectre
From : boraxman
Date : Thu Mar 31 2022 22:44:28

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

Electron is an application framework.  Actually, Electron apps are web based apps, but they are distributed with what is essentially a browser to run them.  So each time you run an electron app, you run a separate browser.  It can get quite heavy when you run multiple electron apps, like Discord and VSCode.

tmpfs is a static size, but you can set it to be larger than default, which is half of your ram.  There is also ramfs, which doesn't have a limit.  It is using ramfs where I ran out.  I used to use ramfs, but have since switched to tmpfs.

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