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.mel...@gmail.com> 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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