Hey, currently on idle my manjaro gnome system needs above 4 gb of ram, why is there? [image] When I sort my processes descending by ram usage the highest process takes about 400 mb…

Okay, but that’s not the issue you described in your first post. Then you should either not use these massive Electron apps, invest in more RAM, or maybe set up a swap partition (or file).

[image] NachoImperium: über above :smiley: [image] NachoImperium: currently on idle my manjaro gnome system needs More important question, how it looks after a fresh boot. And what means idle for you? did you closed all applications? I recently heared that KDE is less Ram hungry tha…

[image] NachoImperium: When I sort my processes descending by ram usage the highest process takes about 400 mb… Instead of the pretty useless picture better post the specific processes actually using your RAM. :wink:

Hey @NachoImperium , I can do the same… Linux eats all my RAM! [image] Show: free -h # and pamac install base-devel pamac build smem smem -ntka

[image] megavolt: pamac install base-devel pamac build smem smem -ntka PID User Command Swap USS PSS RSS 23872 1000 bwrap --args 43 -- Postman …

You can also check what App takes how much RAM… Example: smem -ntka -P brave It can already be seen that brave needs the most memory. Postman and Discord each start their own Electron/Chrome instance. However, it is still not surprising. Programs always try to use as much memory as possible and n…

The obligatory: https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

Why do need so much free memory? What good does free memory do? Be happy that your investment into this machine is actually of good use.

That’s not the problem. The problem is, that sometimes my system laggs and closes applications due to ram…

[image] NachoImperium: The problem is, that sometimes my system laggs and closes applications due to ram… Nice… now it turns out to be a XY problem . Well then create/add a swap? A zRAM could be useful: [image] [HowTo] Install and configure zram using zram-generator T…