Re: Just bought a new used laptop
Reply #12 –
Well, right now my Fx is doing basically nothing, a dozen tabs, maybe less?
$ smem -ktP firefox
PID User Command Swap USS PSS RSS
23566 frans /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefo 0 8.1M 9.5M 31.4M
11427 frans /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/sm 0 16.7M 17.4M 21.1M
10721 frans /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefo 0 94.7M 102.9M 186.0M
7885 frans /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefo 0 159.4M 171.4M 277.5M
7939 frans /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefo 0 197.7M 216.7M 315.3M
11032 frans /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefo 0 143.1M 232.0M 408.7M
32191 frans /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefo 0 230.3M 243.1M 370.0M
20938 frans /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefo 0 244.4M 260.2M 391.3M
8025 frans /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefo 0 247.7M 268.3M 378.9M
30111 frans /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefo 0 379.9M 391.6M 493.8M
7965 frans /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefo 0 687.8M 801.8M 1.0G
7810 frans firefox-esr 0 620.9M 935.0M 1.3G
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12 1 0 3.0G 3.6G 5.1G
Because I'm on my desktop that's fine, but it means that on my laptop I can barely browse and use websites sensibly anymore (except for sites like this one and Wikipedia that aren't crazy).
So yeah, I think I'd probably just shell out the € 60-75 extra for 16 GB. Otherwise in a few years I'd just end up in exactly the same situation as I am today with 4 GB. Well, except I'll make @#$ sure to check for idiotic concepts like soldered on RAM.