On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 14:15:10 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > But "top -o %MEM shows firefox at the top with 12.4 GB VIRT, 377 MB > res, 90 MB shr. > > Who is right?
You said your system has 4 GB of RAM. This particular Firefox process may only have 377 MB loaded into resident memory, but that's not a meaningful number on its own. Would it *like* to have more, except that you've run out of RAM, and it had to be partly swapped out to disk? You can't tell just from top's output. In any case, you're clearly exceeding the amount of RAM you have, and your alternatives would be to have fewer tabs/windows open at once, or to avoid web sites that consume ridiculous amounts of memory, or to get a new computer.
