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

On 02/05/2024 14:50, James Harris wrote:

On 01/05/2024 11:53, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 01/05/2024 11:32, James Harris wrote:

Not a question, just an observation.
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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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That's not Linux. That's a rogue program with a memory leak...

 
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.
 
However, the point of the original post was to vent a frustration about
the way that Linux handles such memory deletion when it happens.
 
 

It is not hard to write a javascript program that eats all memory and
place it on a website.
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I even encountered a website that silently ran some sort of proxy server
in my browser and used up all my upload bandwidth.
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Linux at least protects you from such sites having root access by default...