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Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice by foldr on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:28PM (#26331621)
Browsers will quickly eat up all of your available RAM if you open enough tabs. The thing is, if you had less RAM, they'd be keeping fewer tabs alive in RAM. So you can't really infer from "I'm using X amount of RAM now" to "I need at least X amount of RAM". If you upgraded to 64GB you'd probably end up 'using' a lot more than 28GB for the exact same workflow.
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Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice by mixmastamyk on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @02:59PM (#26333584)
Simply open a blank page, quit the browser and restart it. Now, only load the two or three page/sites you really need. Simple as that to bring mem use under 500MB, with Firefox at least. Repeat this once a day.

I personally close my browser at night and load it in the morning.

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Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice by emilecantin on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:38PM (#26331772)
Oh yeah, definitely! I was just RAM-constrained on my previous machine (8GB) when running Docker workloads, so I made sure to future-proof this one.
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