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That's 6.5 % of available memory of a computer with 8 GB of RAM.

by lzooz 4y ago

kspacewalk2 4y ago
That's not a lot. No one bats an eye when Firefox uses triple that amount sitting idle with 5 tabs open, because Firefox is Not Evil.
- dijit 4y ago
  Firefox can do a lot more than Teams can.
  - kspacewalk2 4y ago
    That's akin to saying a car is more impressive than a nuclear power station because it can go to such interesting places. Or something something apples and oranges. Point is, my analogy may be bad, but it's not as bad as comparing Firefox and Teams in terms of what they do.
    - dijit 4y ago
      I don't understand your point then. Yes, the thing that consumes more resources uses more resources. Because it can do more things. People are also mad about that btw. Saying "well, x uses more than y" where `y` in this case is using about 5x more resources than its contemporaries is just an insultingly weak argument.
- INeedMoreRam 4y ago
  So when you open 5 tabs in Firefox it uses over 1.5GB of memory? I find that hard to believe.
lpcvoid 4y ago
You make it sound like it's fine for an application that has network i/o in the few KB and miniscule UI refreshes when idle to consume that amount?
- lzooz 4y ago
  What % of your RAM did mIRC use back in the day? I bet it was several times that amount.
  - dijit 4y ago
    Define back in the day? mIRC used to use ~2MiB when I had 256MiB in 2003 and I was in a lot of channels. I know this because I used to count every megabyte of usage back then and MSN Messenger with the "animated images" was the real hog back then.
debugnik 4y ago
15.75%, for an app doing nothing in the background and a trivial set of data to work with, unless you meant 16 GB. Install just 5 more applications with that same development philosophy and an 8 GB machine is already swapping, which is ridiculous.
martin_a 4y ago
Most of our systems here are equipped with 8 GB only, where it's 15.75% as said by somebody else. With everything else that runs, you're out of RAM pretty quick: Our production software takes around 1 GB when running, Firefox/Chrome with a few tabs, Acrobat Pro... I'm lucky that I've received an upgrade to 16 GB because I need special software for my work. For the next system I'll ask for 32 GB and 16 GB for my teams. Don't understand why the corporate IT is so sparse with RAM...
- Scharkenberg 4y ago
  > Most of our systems here are equipped with 8 GB only, where it's 15.75% as said by somebody else. 520/8192 = 0.0635

That's 6.5 % of available memory of a computer with 8 GB of RAM.

by lzooz 4y ago

That's 6.5 % of available memory of a computer with 8 GB of RAM.

That's not a lot. No one bats an eye when Firefox uses triple that amount sitting idle with 5 tabs open, because Firefox is Not Evil.

dijit 4y ago
Firefox can do a lot more than Teams can.
- kspacewalk2 4y ago
  That's akin to saying a car is more impressive than a nuclear power station because it can go to such interesting places. Or something something apples and oranges. Point is, my analogy may be bad, but it's not as bad as comparing Firefox and Teams in terms of what they do.
  - dijit 4y ago
    I don't understand your point then. Yes, the thing that consumes more resources uses more resources. Because it can do more things. People are also mad about that btw. Saying "well, x uses more than y" where `y` in this case is using about 5x more resources than its contemporaries is just an insultingly weak argument.
INeedMoreRam 4y ago
So when you open 5 tabs in Firefox it uses over 1.5GB of memory? I find that hard to believe.

lpcvoid 4y ago

You make it sound like it's fine for an application that has network i/o in the few KB and miniscule UI refreshes when idle to consume that amount?

lzooz 4y ago
What % of your RAM did mIRC use back in the day? I bet it was several times that amount.
- dijit 4y ago
  Define back in the day? mIRC used to use ~2MiB when I had 256MiB in 2003 and I was in a lot of channels. I know this because I used to count every megabyte of usage back then and MSN Messenger with the "animated images" was the real hog back then.

debugnik 4y ago

15.75%, for an app doing nothing in the background and a trivial set of data to work with, unless you meant 16 GB. Install just 5 more applications with that same development philosophy and an 8 GB machine is already swapping, which is ridiculous.

martin_a 4y ago

Most of our systems here are equipped with 8 GB only, where it's 15.75% as said by somebody else. With everything else that runs, you're out of RAM pretty quick: Our production software takes around 1 GB when running, Firefox/Chrome with a few tabs, Acrobat Pro... I'm lucky that I've received an upgrade to 16 GB because I need special software for my work. For the next system I'll ask for 32 GB and 16 GB for my teams. Don't understand why the corporate IT is so sparse with RAM...

Scharkenberg 4y ago
> Most of our systems here are equipped with 8 GB only, where it's 15.75% as said by somebody else. 520/8192 = 0.0635