Don't let me stop you from upgrading, that's got loads of upsides. Just suspecting you still have something else to fix before you'll really get to use it :)

It CAN be ok to have very low free ram if it's used up by buffers/cache. (freeable) If Buff/cache gets below about 3GB on most systems, you'll start to struggle.

If you have 16GB, it's running low, and you can't account for it in top, you have something leaking somewhere.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol I sorted top by memory usage and realized I'm using 12 gigs on an LLM I was playing around with to get local code completion in my JetBrains IDE. It didn't work all that well anyway and I forgot to disable it.

I did have similar issues before this too, but I imagine blowing 12 gigs on an LLM must've exacerbated things. I'm wondering how long I can go now before I'm starting to run out of memory again. Though I was still sitting at 7 gigs buffer/cache and it hadn't slowed down yet.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

12/16, That'll do it. Hopefully that's all, good luck out there and happy KDE'ing

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago

Well, 12/32. The rest was being used by Pycharm and Firefox mostly