Hello, Manjaro is extremely lagging when opening multiple programs and I would have to restart my pc, Programs like Chrome with multiple tabs (It happens with Firefox too), vs code and terminal is there any painless solution?

Hi, we miss a little information here. What kind of programs? And how much in the same time? Is it everytime or just with a combination of RAM-hungry programs?

Programs like Chrome with multiple tabs (It happens with Firefox too), vs code and terminal It’s every time

That sounds like you have low ram quantity but high ram usage. EDIT: provide your information before anything. the inxi command in the link above is the minimum to see what hardware you use.

anyway to reduce the ram usage ?

Any way you could provide the people wanting to help you with the information they request from you about your system? :roll_eyes:

Sorry, these are my system specs: Core I7 4500U Ram 4 Kingston SSD 240GB + HDD 320 AMD Radeon HD 8500

Chrome and Firefox are notorious heavyweights. I’m afraid there’s little you can do to diminish their memory footprint. :man_shrugging: However, you could install more RAM. With 8 GiB of RAM, you’ll already have a lot more headroom than with 4 GiB. If you cannot get any new RAM modules for your …

More info would help… pls read the link above posted by @Aragorn a simple swapfile or swap partiton might help your problem . people need more info to help you .

If you have low RAM (4G is considered low nowadays for a system), the only thing you can do for web browsers is to have only one tab. Multi tabbing in browsers will eat your RAM a lot. Monitor your programs RAM usage with a tool like htop, sort the list with RAM usage (F6 key to sort) you will see …

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[HowTo] Provide System Information Tutorials

This tutorial is superseded by this one. Remember all Tutorials are wiki posts that can be edited by TL2 (Trust Level 2) members and above. Welcome to Manjaro! To allow all of us helpful people on this forum TO HELP YOU, we need some basic information about your system. This probably means you described the symptoms of your problem, but now we need some more information to know where the origin of your issue is exactly. Someone else probably linked you to…

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