Title. Besides setting tmpfs to use 10GiB of it to store downloads.

  • NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca
    112·
    11 months ago

    Here’s a little script I’ve put in my $PATH, called memsum:

    #!/usr/bin/bash
/usr/bin/ps -eo rss,command --sort -rss | egrep $1 | awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; sum +=hr} END {print sum}'

    Now you can go: memsum firefox or memsum whatever and see that, actually, apps use a ridiculous amount of memory these days.

    I can get Firefox up to 8GB by using things like Office 365.

    • Caveman@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 months ago

      Browsers often use a lot of unreserved memory marked as free for whoever wants it. This is how you get 16GB browser sessions.

    • Signfeld@lemm.ee
      1·
      11 months ago

      Thanks for this, it’s so easy to just run this script when I’m curious.

      I got the warning “egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E” so I just swapped that command to get rid of the message.