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On 01/05/2024 11:53, The Natural Philosopher wrote:It is not hard to write a javascript program that eats all memory and place it on a website.On 01/05/2024 11:32, James Harris wrote:It may not be a memory leak but it's certainly a rogue program - chrome/chromium in this case, though I've had similar and worse problems with Firefox which seems to me more likely to have a genuine memory leak.Not a question, just an observation.That's not Linux. That's a rogue program with a memory leak...
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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.
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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.
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However, the point of the original post was to vent a frustration about the way that Linux handles such memory deletion when it happens.
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