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How are you doing all of those things with only 4GB of memory? My wife's old laptop had 3GB, and with about 10 Chrome tabs open, the computer would start swappi
by RussianCow 6y ago
How are you doing all of those things with only 4GB of memory? My wife's old laptop had 3GB, and with about 10 Chrome tabs open, the computer would start swapping and quickly grind to a halt—with no other programs running in the foreground. I just checked memory usage on my own machine and Firefox alone is using over 3GB for me, and IntelliJ another 4GB. Granted, I know many programs tend to use more memory if it's available (for caching, etc), and I also hardly ever restart my machine, but still... Running a full dev environment with 4GB doesn't seem like it should be possible, so I'm curious how yours is so functional.
- qwerty456127 6y agoI usually have about 50 open Chrome tabs (on my Core2Duo with 4GB RAM). Half of them YouTube (I mostly watch 360p though, I only switch to 1080p when I watch somebody coding). This could get slightly slow occasionally when I used a HDD, not even slightly slow now as I switched to an SSD. I usually have PyCharm open so I code at the same time while watching something. I only experience some minor slowness when I run a system (Manjaro) update in the background and when PyCharm re-indexes libraries after an update.