Life is pain with 4 GiB RAM

>Firefox is RAM efficient, they say
Since when did 4 GiB of RAM become so inadequate?
And no, I can't upgrade it since this is a work laptop meaning, legally, it's not my property

And here's RAM usage without Firefox

Use Chrome.

I'm on 4 gigs of ddr2 RAMBO and yes, FF eats it all up. However, having swap properly set up makes it not painful. Especially on linux (I'm on wangblows right now), I've found that linux can deal with these things better than windows.

G-Guys
It is firefox, i swear

Windows Moonspeak Edition

They said 16gb ram was a meme

>Since when did 4 GiB of RAM become so inadequate?
since buying cigarettes and alcohol through the darkweb using VMs

How do you setup swap so it actually works on Linux?
The default seems to swap out things randomly and when it does, nothing works.
Wouldn't it be easier to always murder Firefox(as Firefox always is the problem)?

herro huang

Use a swap partition and try to set up the swappiness value so that it werks for you. I think I had it set to 75 on my arch install.

>8 threads
>4 GiB RAM
ok wtf I have 1c2t 8 GiB DDR3 1600 11

That doesn't work well for me.
I was hoping there was some blacklisting of applications to never swap or applications to always kill before swapping.
Worst case is when my desktop swaps out so I can't even kill Firefox manually.

I don't know what the fuck you doing but not even sitting at the new tab page mine drops below 800mb, and the only extension I'm using is uBlock.

Blame the web? Back in the day 4-8gib is more than enough for everything.

4 gigs became shit about 3-4 years ago. If your company isn't (((pinching pennies))) they should be able to throw another 4 gigs in there if you just ask.

>They said 48GiB ram was a meme
>They were right

>swappiness
Placebo

It doesnt count other threads/processes. He'd have to show that list and then you could add it all up.

>TFW about to move to 32GiB of RAM once Ryzen can run 4 8 gig sticks at 3200mhz 14-14-14-28

>How do you setup swap
My advice is to add this to a startup script such as /etc/rc.d/rc.local :

modprobe lz4
echo 1 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled
echo lz4 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor
echo 10 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/max_pool_percent

software in memory is pretty easily efficiently compressed so even though you have 10% less system memory available you're able to hold more stuff in RAM.

palememe coming through
4GB DDR2

2gb reporting.

I have 4 16 gig sticks with those timings at 3000. The future is now, my friend.

>tfw fucking gnome3 eats a lot less and has the fame of being bloated and heavy

i went with 4gb ram when i built my computer back in 2012 because its what i already had
was going to upgrade but have been putting it off all these years.
comptuer runs perfectly fine btw. gta v and fo4 on full settings ez pz.

>"muh ram."

Why do games stutter when RAM usage nears 3.2 gb out of 4? I see disk usage go up alot then too.

install 64bit os

It is 64-bit, Windows 10 Pro. So are most of the games as well.

>Windows 10
found your problem

CHING CHONG NIP NONG NAGASAKI MITSUBISHI

Around 2014 I'd say, for a desktop.
What did you expect? 4GB ram being the optimal forever and ever after 2007?

I mean, that's possible, it's just not as easy as adding a couple of # to some .conf file.

I think it's because your font is nothing but gibberish!!

>>>>>>>>>

Why don't you just buy more?

>have 2GB with MATE as DE and Firefox with just uBlock and uMatrix
>never even get close to 1GB
>never even use swap

What do you guys even do to cause this massive usage?

they use wangblows

You've got over 1GB free, what's your problem?

So many people calling you Japanese, wow. I wouldn't ever do that , you don't deserve to be treated that badly

Had a thinkpad x61 with 2 gb of ram and it was enough for ffox i3 and other shit

>"back in the day"
>"4-8GB"

you only have 4 rams? that sucks

I upgraded from 54 to 56 and the memory consumption was 800 mb with multiple tabs open, to 1.4 GB just watching Youtube. Every 2 hours I have to restart Firefox.

>work laptop
>4 pickles of ram

Phones have 4-8 of ram now, you almost have to go out of your way to find a 4-pickled laptop.

Can you ask them for an upgrade if it's hampering your productivity?

Javascript frameworks.

I have 10 tabs and one video and am at 625MB for Firefox 56.

It's probably because of disk cache.

Use chrome instead. My toaster only has 3gb but I've never had any problem with it.

Explain!

I was using a Mac recently for days with only 2GB of RAM, running latest Sierra. (Not High Sierra.)
It worked perfectly fine for browsing several tabs and listening to music at the same time.

Shit on me if you want, but I was surprised too, it not like I wanted to use it, I was forced to.

i turned off multiprocesses because it was buggy

Chrome is worse guess how many tabs i have open

>sjwfox
>current year

30?

Was 7 when i took that now 10

>Since when did 4 GiB of RAM become so inadequate?
4-5 years ago.

> They said 64GB RAM was a meme

Clicking the cpu tab to try make yourself feel better about your purchase.

>I've found that linux can deal with these things better than windows.

Can confirm, Win 8.1 on old Dell Notebook with 4 gigs of RAM was a nightmare. Even heavy Loonix DE's eat significantly less memory than Winblows. If you use something light like Xfce or Mate you'll easily get ~300 MB idle, if you just use a WM like i3wm or Openbox even less...

...

>thinks Gnome 3 is hated because of nonexistant bloat and heaviness
>doesn't know it is because it is garbage software that hates its users and is ugly

Nice VM

Eat mcdonalds 4 less times and get another 4GB

Am I the only one who noticed a spike in RAM usage since updating to Firefox 56?

even if it is, why would that matter?

哈囉 呆丸郎你好

It means you gimped your OS in order to brag about its RAM usage, numnuts. If it was Vista, I would be impressed, but since it is 7, then I know it is practically broken.

>chink

It's a normall install on a older core2duo lappy. Nothing broken, everything works, even Aero as you can see.

Look at the size of my balls!1!!

How do you achieve clocks/timings like this?
The best stable performance I get is 3066 at 16-18-18-36.
(2x 8GiB Ripjaw V rated at 3200 with the above timings)
Should I have spend more than 150 shekles on my ram?
Will I be a clocklet forever?

>people fell for the 16GB RAM is enough meme

>being a ramlet or a corelet

I upgraded the ram in my work laptop. Are you gay or something?

What Xeons are those?

>it'll be irrelevant in a year because of HBM
ha, ha.

>8GiB is enou-

>winblows 10
tard

Could be 8.

I have a 4GB ram module on my laptop and added another 4GB module yesterday. However, for some reason my disk usage has been hitting 100% and my system doesn't feel any faster now that I have 8GB. In total. The specs on both RAM modules are the same, just different manufacturer. What's the deal?

Pagefile fragmentation. Do an offline defrag and see if it helps.

50 tabs and my email in seamonkey, less than 700mb ram. 4gb ram is fine

firefox 57 just werks

E5-2630L v3

try disabling hardware acceleration. I did that and it saved ~1GB of RAM

Thanks, I'll try that out.

Why is there so much winshit ITT?

what is an "offline defrag" and how do I do it (which free software should I download)?

It's when you defragment the disk without running the operating system on it. You can do this by removing the disk and connecting it to another running computer. If you can't do that download PerfectDisk (it has a 30day free trial)

thx user for all the info

Im pretty sure windows 7 and above just idles at around 2.9 GB of use. So i guess 4 GB of ram is pretty much inadequate unless your just trying to watch some you tube or something

>life is a pain with Windows
FTFY

Give it to Jamal and claim it got stolen

Cheap RAM when?

This, it also stops spinning your GPU.

But user, without the GPU, how could I possibly start my housefires?

You guys are like little babies. Watch this.

>windows
well there's your problem.
I use Linux Mint with Mate and I never go over 3gb of ram usage

>4C/8T
>4GB RAM
why bother