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From: James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux doesn't seem to manage memory very well
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 14:50:28 +0100
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On 01/05/2024 11:53, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 01/05/2024 11:32, James Harris wrote:
>> Not a question, just an observation.
>>
>> I say that Linux doesn't seem to handle memory well because my laptop 
>> had 8GB RAM (which, frankly, Windows seems to find perfectly adequate 
>> for a similar workload). Under Linux the RAM would fill up and then 
>> swap space would be used. Then the machine would become largely 
>> unresponsive - e.g. taking minutes to switch between windows.
>>
>> So I upgraded the RAM. It now has three times as much (i.e. 24GB)! But 
>> even so, RAM has still steadily filled up until reaching the full 
>> 24GB. What's more, it's now showing 4.8GB of swap space in use.
>>
>>
> That's not Linux. That's a rogue program with a memory leak...

It may not be a memory leak but it's certainly a rogue program - 
chrome/chromium in this case, though I've had similar and worse problems 
with Firefox which seems to me more likely to have a genuine memory leak.

However, the point of the original post was to vent a frustration about 
the way that Linux handles such memory deletion when it happens.


-- 
James Harris