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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by pawadu on Friday September 23, 2016 @11:35AM (#12565382)
What is the typical memory usage of this for normal web browsing?
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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by lighttower on Friday September 23, 2016 @11:47AM (#12565476)
`mount -l` shows a filesystem of type `overlay` for each browser (in my case, chromium, chrome, firefox). Range from 50MB to 200MB. I have it to sync to disc every 15min - so I reckon it empties out the ram whenever it syncs. I've never had a problem (8GB of ram on the machine I initially installed it on) so I haven't watched to see what the max size is. The developer [1] is great - issues are resolved very quickly.

[1] https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon

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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by codemac on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:18PM (#12566276)
Mine uses the following with firefox:

overlaid 2.0G 128M 1.9G 7% /run/user/1000/codemac-firefox-3ckuo4v7.default

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