This is fine, until another application needs it. Then it becomes a power struggle for the throne, and both sides lose.
That's not correct for any modern OS. Free memory is used as a disk cache, so your computer is significantly faster with more free memory.
Well, not as significantly now, with SSD everywhere, but still faster.
Re:Flow browser passes the Acid tests
by Dylan16807 on Saturday June 13, 2020 @04:47PM
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If it would actually detect that, it could be great.
But I have a chromebook with 4GB of ram, and it often struggles to keep a particular set of 3 expensive tabs open because it runs out. It's definitely not reacting to memory pressure by being less greedy.
It's kind of obvious and does not at all explain chromium's lower bound of memory usage. But: if Chromium runs better with more memory and no other process is using it: please take it!
That is what it's there for, after all.