On Sat, 2022-01-08 at 14:24 -0600, David Wright wrote: [...] > the alternative is running out of memory, and the OOM killer. > Obviously I don't know what you run that clogs the system. Most of my > machines have much less RAM than the two mentioned, though they get > less memory-intensive use nowadays. Maybe the difference is that > I don't install any DEs here.
I've always used a DE and no swap, at the moment it's using 850MiB of RAM running an email program and Firefox with one page open. Opening 10 tabs in Firefox and a music player to get a realistic higher limit of memory usage and it jumps to 1.5GiB. That still leaves several GiB for disk caches. -- Tixy
