Re: More memory

[linux guy]

Firefox uses a lot of RAM if you have a lot of windows/tabs open.

Another way to see how much memory FF is using is to do an
about:performance in the URL field.

A bare minimum hardware spec for me these days is 16GB of RAM.  I purchased
a laptop this summer and bumped that to 32 GB.   My desktop machine has 64
GB.

I am a heavy user of FF.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:35 PM John Mellor  wrote:
> What on earth are you doing in Firefox and Thunderbird to use that
> swap?  I have multiple 8GB machines running the same Fedora, Firefox and
> Thunderbird, and virtually never get into swap at all.  Two the these
> machines are also Lenovo.  This makes no sense, so there must be
> something else hogging all that memory. Do a top and sort by RSS and see
> what the real problem app is.
>
> --
>
> John Mellor
>
> On 2022-01-11 12:30 p.m., Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > The specs for my Lenovo x140e is 8GB, which I have and it seems to be
> > not enough.
> >
> > $ free
> >                total        used        free      shared buff/cache
> > available
> > Mem:         7380668     6930852      262676        1492 187140
> > 221144
> > Swap:       24157176    12044096    12113080
> >
> > Firefox seems to be a bit part of the problem.   I quit it and see:
> >
> > $ free
> >                total        used        free      shared buff/cache
> > available
> > Mem:         7380668     5146100     1776840        1364 457728
> > 1948864
> > Swap:       24157176     5270956    18886220
> >
> > I am running a VM at 2Gb and a couple of Thunderbird sessions. Closing
> > these TB and waiting a while I drop down to
> >
> > $ free
> >                total        used        free      shared buff/cache
> > available
> > Mem:         7380668     3751784     1148396       16228 2480488
> > 3272716
> > Swap:       24157176     2422956    21734220
> >
> > but really the bottom line is I need more memory for the tasks at
> > hand.  Firefox has all these weird processes running eating up lots of
> > memory and swapping like crazy.  Probably bad for my SSD drive.
> >
> > So how to get to 16GB memory?
> >
> > What follows the x140e in the 12" format?  I can't figure this out
> > from basic Lenovo sales stuff.  Probably going to have to find a
> > Lenovo forum to get the info.
> >
> > But CompuRAM in UK says they can support up to 32GB on the x140e using
> > "newer SO-DIMM chips".  Crucial only sells 4GB for the x140e.
> >
> > Anyone have any knowledge on this?  Other than booting and getting
> > into settings, how do I figure out my bios version?  And to see if
> > Lenovo has a newer one that probably CompuRAM is counting on?
> >
> > Any US memory sources that will support more memory for the x140e? I
> > really don't want to deal with overseas shipping and support.
> >
> > And back to the "newer" hardware question on 140 followon.
> >
> > thanks for any input.  All this swapping is taking time when I really
> > have to wait for the system to bring in what is needed and things to
> > start working.
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