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Re:Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web... by tlinton on Thursday July 09, 2015 @11:40PM (#9862176)
V8 has an odd habit of not releasing memory back to the OS after mark-and-sweeps. It's a minor performance boost to let it roll up memory and it isn't uncommon for it to hog up as much memory until a heuristic (or an OS signal) tells it to knock it off.
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Re:Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web... by ashark on Friday July 10, 2015 @09:54AM (#9863939)
Apparently "hey, I'm trying to use this 4GB machine for actual work with a couple VMs running and you're driving me in to swap hell" didn't come through as "knock it off".

And that's the story of why I have an 8GB machine now :-/

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