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It's the web browser and electron based apps that are the primary consumers of ram on my desktops with the DE and OS ram usage being minimal by comparison. I h

It's the web browser and electron based apps that are the primary consumers of ram on my desktops with the DE and OS ram usage being minimal by comparison. I have an ancient laptop from 2008 with 4GB of ram that runs a modern KDE desktop and related applications just fine that I use for troubleshooting stuff. However, the moment I open a web browser it basically falls to pieces. I hate everything about this. :-/

ValdikSS 9mo ago
That's easy to fix: Step 1: sudo tee /etc/tmpfiles.d/mglru.conf <<EOF w- /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled - - - - y w- /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/min_ttl_ms - - - - 300 EOF Step 2: apt install zram-tools sed -i 's/#PERCENT=.*/PERCENT=130/' /etc/default/zramswap
- alyandon 9mo ago
  I'm on an older LTS kernel so no support for lru_gen but I will definitely check out zramswap - thanks.
  - ValdikSS 9mo ago
    Then also do this: echo vm.page-cluster=0 >> /etc/sysctl.d/85-swappiness.conf
dTal 9mo ago
4GB still seems excessive, by at least one and probably several orders of magnitude, for what vanilla KDE actually does: browse files, manage windows, and edit text. And KDE is one of the best modern options.
- alyandon 9mo ago
  KDE doesn't need 4 GB of ram - that's just what my laptop happens to have which is more than ample to run the OS + KDE + native applications.
whatevaa 9mo ago
People are saying that 8GB for Android phone is too small. All of those applications are not electron either. There is bloat everywhere.
lproven 9mo ago
> I have an ancient laptop from 2008 with 4GB of ram that runs a modern KDE desktop Try Alpine Linux, with Xfce which can do most of the same things. Then enable swap compression -- add this to the end of the kernel line in your bootloader: zswap.enabled=1 This compresses everything going to swap, and decompresses it coming back: less disk reads and writes, and less space used. Everything gets quicker.

ValdikSS 9mo ago

That's easy to fix: Step 1: sudo tee /etc/tmpfiles.d/mglru.conf <<EOF w- /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled - - - - y w- /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/min_ttl_ms - - - - 300 EOF Step 2: apt install zram-tools sed -i 's/#PERCENT=.*/PERCENT=130/' /etc/default/zramswap

alyandon 9mo ago
I'm on an older LTS kernel so no support for lru_gen but I will definitely check out zramswap - thanks.
- ValdikSS 9mo ago
  Then also do this: echo vm.page-cluster=0 >> /etc/sysctl.d/85-swappiness.conf

dTal 9mo ago

4GB still seems excessive, by at least one and probably several orders of magnitude, for what vanilla KDE actually does: browse files, manage windows, and edit text. And KDE is one of the best modern options.

alyandon 9mo ago
KDE doesn't need 4 GB of ram - that's just what my laptop happens to have which is more than ample to run the OS + KDE + native applications.

whatevaa 9mo ago

People are saying that 8GB for Android phone is too small. All of those applications are not electron either. There is bloat everywhere.

lproven 9mo ago

> I have an ancient laptop from 2008 with 4GB of ram that runs a modern KDE desktop Try Alpine Linux, with Xfce which can do most of the same things. Then enable swap compression -- add this to the end of the kernel line in your bootloader: zswap.enabled=1 This compresses everything going to swap, and decompresses it coming back: less disk reads and writes, and less space used. Everything gets quicker.