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Re:Sunsetting Atom by manigandham on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:24PM (#31674437)
> "but it's still using 400mb of RAM"

Why does this matter? What is the point of saving RAM instead of using it?

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Re:Sunsetting Atom by Gigachad on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:01AM (#31678320)
Because all my ram is already consumed. I have a 16gb MacBook running only a browser, vscode, ms teams, and the docker containers for the app and I have no memory left so I see a spinning ball every time I change windows. Ms teams was the final straw. Slack was about 300mb but teams is now 700mb+
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Re:Sunsetting Atom by Karunamon on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @06:34PM (#31675289)
It matters because your program is probably not the only one running.
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Re:Sunsetting Atom by manigandham on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @07:26PM (#31675793)
It’s a small amount and if you’re using it then it should take priority. Modern operating systems with SSDs are very good at managing memory anyway.
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Re:Sunsetting Atom by mckravchyk on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:04AM (#31694395)
Once you exceed it some of the content will go to swap, which is going to slow down the system (and wear an ssd faster). 400MB is not that much though, for me Code usually takes at least 1.5GB RAM.
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