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 <john.mellor@xxxxxxxxx> 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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