You have no swap file and the /tmp is using tmpfs which is a dynamic ramdisk that defaults to 50% of your available ram.
Note: The actual memory/swap consumption depends on how much is used, as tmpfs partitions do not consume any memory until it is actually needed.
– tmpfs - ArchWiki
Configure swap Swap - Manjaro - other options is zram and zswap but they alle use RAM
RAM usage depends on what applications you run.
According to this output you have 8GB of RAM - but no swap at all.
You should have swap with this amount of RAM.
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this is what my system currently looks like with just the browser and an idle terminal running.
You know that 2GB of swap is better than nothing, but it will not allow you to hibernate your system?
For that you’ll have to have about the same size swap as you have RAM.
As much as we all would like that apps use like only 1k, thats not the reality of life
But…it’s a lot better usage in Linux as it is in “other” operating systems
IT doesn’t - it’s not about the Desktop Environment.
They, by themselves, are all pretty much the same - and all nowhere near the RAM usage you report here.
It’s about the apps you use with it. The programs you run.
If you want to know what is using the memory, just go and look.
please note that firefox can be pain in the arse and is well known to reserve memory (up to 2 gb) even when it’s not used. don’t hesitate, from here everything looks quite usual, a lot of your ram is used as cached (temporary) space and if you’re using more apps this cache is cleared.
to run linux with a graphical enviroment in a smooth way needs about 4gb ram itself. 8gb ram is even with linux (and a graphical enviroment) the basic minimum nowadays.
santa claus is coming soon and maybe he is willing to give you another 8 or 16 gb ram as present. hope you had been nice and brave this year
I used Xfce before, but not the default config, with Picom, Ulauncher, Firefox with ~10 tabs, Terminator, Thunar, Geany and Thunderbird opened, I had something like 2,2-2,4 Gi.
The easiest way to see the detailed memory usage is to use the task manager. You can also install smem package and use the command :
tracy@daphne:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 8016336 3525916 685144 734168 3805276 3480632
Swap: 21578748 0 21578748
That’s with 2 instances of Firefox (not just 2 Widows), Deluge. Handbrake, Dolphin, Mulvad VPN, Feral Media Library and konsole. One FF instanance has 1 tab, the other 12 Tabs.
That’s GUI apps.
as a comparison this is my xfce desktop.
tracy@princess:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 4015900 1011596 1739572 25780 1264732 2744864
Swap: 0 0 0
note to self… there’s your problem, that’s wy hibernate don’t work