I don't know why electron has to use so much memory up though. It seems to use however much RAM is currently available when it boots, the more RAM system has the more electron seems to think it needs.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Ib4 "uNusEd RAm iS wAStEd RaM!"

No, unused RAM keeps my PC running fast. I remember the days where accidentally hitting the windows key while in a game meant waiting a minute for it to swap the desktop pages in, only to have to swap the game pages back when you immediately click back into it, expecting it to either crash your computer or probably disconnect from whatever server you were connected to. Fuck that shit.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I mean unused RAM is still wasted: You'd want all the things cached in RAM already so they're ready to go.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean I have access to a computer with a terabyte of RAM I'm gonna go ahead and say that most applications aren't going to need that much and if they use that much I'm gonna be cross.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wellll

If you have a terabyte of RAM sitting around doing literally nothing, it's kinda being wasted. If you're actually using it for whatever application can make good use of it, which I'm assuming is some heavy-duty scientific computation or running full size AI models or something, then it's no longer being wasted.

And yes if your calculator uses the entire terabyte, that's also memory being wasted obviously.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

That's a different definition of wasted though. The RAM isn't lost just because it isn't being currently utilised. It's sitting there waiting for me to open a intensive task.

What I am objecting to is programs using more RAM than they need simply because it's currently available. Aka chromium.

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