Re: Linux doesn't seem to manage memory very well

Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-05-01 12:32, James Harris wrote:

Not a question, just an observation.
 
I say that Linux doesn't seem to handle memory well because my laptop
had 8GB RAM (which, frankly, Windows seems to find perfectly adequate
for a similar workload). Under Linux the RAM would fill up and then swap
space would be used. Then the machine would become largely unresponsive
- e.g. taking minutes to switch between windows.
 
So I upgraded the RAM. It now has three times as much (i.e. 24GB)! But
even so, RAM has still steadily filled up until reaching the full 24GB.
What's more, it's now showing 4.8GB of swap space in use.

 
No, your analysis is not correct.
 
You have some buggy application or service that is eating all the
memory. You have to search and hunt for it.

Another reply indicates that his issue is the fact that browsers
(Chrome, Firefox) are bloated, memory hungry, "leaks" that eventually
eat all of ram, driving any system's memory management to insanity.

This, unfortuantely, is just a fact of browsers.  They eat memory to no
end.