If the majority of ram isn’t being utilized you either have a problem or have entirely to much ram. I’m not saying programs can’t be memory hogs, but they should utilize what resources are there to perform better. It would be like turning on a flash light, using all of the power and then covering half the bulb while trying to cross a field in the dark. The CPU and GPU use more electricity when running at higher percentages, ram is negligible for the most part.
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Nanomerce@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ngl, I’ve never had issues with either for ram. my experience with Firefox is mostly the sameas chrome with ram usage. The main reason Im on Firefox is cause it’s been a whole lot more stable for me than chrome.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
i always hear this but it’s obviously not true lol, if i ever see my ram reach max usage the computer shits itself and i’ll likely have to restart it because most things become utterly frozen
full RAM utilization is patently not something you want.
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
But they said “majority” not “entirety.”
Imalostmerchant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is a post about being upset chrome is using 40% of RAM on the system
irreticent@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Chrome might not be the only program running.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 months ago
Who only has a single program running at a time on their PC? Are we in the 90’s?
mstrk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s about the amount of tabs you keep open. Every site will take a piece of RAM and a max of 5Gb per tab if not mistaken.
I think GChrome has a feature now where it tries to “kill” the tabs you’re not using to mitigate this issue but it’s opt in.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I switched from Chrome to Firefox on my Mac desktop and the memory usage was cut in half at least. I only use it on my Linux notebook, so I have no idea about the memory usage difference there, but there was an unquestionable difference on the Mac. It has 16 gb of ram and is from 7 years ago, so it was before the M-chips and their ram hunger and still gave me memory warnings.
Now I never have memory issues on it. All it took was switching to Firefox.
So it definitely makes a difference on some systems.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also, adblockers still work.