Pretty impressive if you can get nothing but the browser to eat 8G of ram though.
I cant manage to do so even with hundreds of tabs.
Regardless … You definitely want swap.
I guess ‘we will see’ if you still get runaway memory usage.
(I expect you will … because pamac seems to cause it in general right now)
(( and because I notice the link above is still not clicked … heres another: Bizarre Pamac & Pacman behavior: used 62GiB memory, took 10min to refresh DBs - #29 by aZero ))