Comment on What are the memory usage of various types of processes?
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 days ago
There’s not that many programs most people use that consume a substantial amount of RAM, generally browsers are by far the heaviest ones.
I have a system monitor open rn and looking at some basic apps a calculator app uses around 30MiB, office programs would be around 150MiB unless you’re opening massive files, an email client would be around 100MiB, a PDF viewer is around 60MiB, a file manager is 40MiB, a video player is a 100MiB etc.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Games tend to be much heavier than browsers.
And every electron app is basically a browser with a built in website. Spotify, slack and vscodium all use (significantly) more than 150MB on my machine.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 days ago
I was talking more in terms of “normie” programs than games tbh, they’d obviously use way more lol
And yeah, electron wrappers would also be up there, for me spotify is at around 200-300MiB, I don’t have slack or vscode so can’t check those. In terms of having generic programs rather than specific named ones as OP mentioned electron apps may be harder to specify or label in a way that’s recognizable to most people
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Given the size of the games industry and estimates that over 60% of people play video games weekly I’d find it rather strange to exclude games, and the whole gamer vs normie distinction seems outdated.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 days ago
I would not say that reflects my experience. The vast majority of the people I interact with outside of the internet don’t play video games, and if they do it’s crossword games or candy crush on their phone, so I would not generally consider video games as an average person thing, or at least it doesn’t seem to be where I live outside the younger generations
Either way, OP said they don’t want RAM hog applications, for which they mentioned video editors taking 8+GB, and I’d say on average games probably take 4-8GB (and I don’t particularly play the modern AAA stuff), so I’d consider them a valid target to exclude on those grounds even if we do define them as something for average people