• grue@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Web browser tabs.

      (I only have 64GB, but that’s my answer. Firefox still eventually runs out of memory and crashes, BTW. Not blaming the browser itself; I think there’s a memory leak in the JS in some of the tabs I keep open.)

      • omarfw@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        Interesting. I use tons of bookmarks and close tabs/firefox frequently so I often forget that web browsers are capable of using that much memory.

        • mrbigmouth502@piefed.zip
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          7 days ago

          I’m pretty much the same except for the last part. I’m no stranger to opening dozens of tabs and seeing my RAM usage go up, but instead of leaving them open long term, I’ll bookmark some and use Tab Stash to stow away the rest.

          If I kept all my tabs open long term, I wouldn’t have enough RAM to do anything.

    • Siegehammer85@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Virtualization work, also helps a with memory leaks with games occasionally. I’ve had 64GB RAM since 2011 with the x79 boards and never went below that quantity. RAM was cheap so why not.