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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.

  • Owl@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Then it’s just a bug I guess

    Or someone is getting very rich in bitcoin right now

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOP
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      Someone else pointed out cached RAM is shown as used in Linux, so Firefox is probably showing actual usage and the process list probably includes the RAM cached for Firefox.