My puppy uses a lot of RAM (Solved)

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pp4mnklinux · #1 Post by **pp4mnklinux** » Fri 11 Oct 2019, 06:19

Hello everybody:

You know that I asked a lot of times how to reduce my puppy uses, because although I had 4Gb of RAM, my pc get block at 3.79Gb.

I tried a lot of thigs, but (as always) the better the easier.

I put 8Gb more of RAM (NOW 12GB) and my problem had dissapear.

€40 and NO PROBLEM

(OPEN BOX + SLIMJET BROWSER with 40 video tabs)

mikeslr · #2 Post by **mikeslr** » Fri 11 Oct 2019, 14:25

Money is always tight. But if you value your free time as much as what you make on an hourly basis, buying more RAM is also the most cost effective way to solve low RAM problems.

musher0 · #3 Post by **musher0** » Fri 11 Oct 2019, 15:36

I'm glad you found a solution, but it's still extremely weird that you would need 12 G of
RAM to run a Puppy.

backi · #4 Post by **backi** » Fri 11 Oct 2019, 18:37

12 G of RAM to run a Puppy ???? .....tell me this ain`t true ....never heard this before...indeed fucking weird .

Galbi · #5 Post by **Galbi** » Fri 11 Oct 2019, 20:24

backi wrote:12 G of RAM to run a Puppy ???? .....tell me this ain`t true ....never heard this before...indeed fucking weird .

Yes, very strange... but he says: 'BROWSER with 40 video tabs'

backi · #6 Post by **backi** » Sat 12 Oct 2019, 15:11

BROWSER with 40 video tabs

Overlooked it.......does it really take that much ram?

pp4mnklinux · #7 Post by **pp4mnklinux** » Sun 13 Oct 2019, 09:46

backi wrote:
BROWSER with 40 video tabs
Overlooked it.......does it really take that much ram?

EXTREME USE .- image6

NORMAL USE.- image5 image4

Believe or not, that is and this is what I told

HAVE A NICE DAY (I never lie)

musher0 · #8 Post by **musher0** » Sun 13 Oct 2019, 17:53

I never said : you lied.
I said : that is weird for a PuppyLinux.

Run htop : it could probably provide a clue about this weirdness, it has a RAM column.

Mike Walsh · #9 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Sun 13 Oct 2019, 22:04

I can well believe the 'weirdness'.

My old Compaq tower has 3 GB of RAM. Your average Chromium 'clone', with several non-video tabs open, will chew its way through that like there's no tomorrow.

Although I've been a fan of them for years, it's why I now prefer Palemoon for general browsing. Much lighter, and consumes far less in the way of resources.

[Mind you, if QtWeb was still under development, I know what I'd be using...]

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@ musher0:-

That 12 GB ain't for his Puppy. It's to run the browser.....though why anybody in their right mind would want that many video tabs open at the same time is beyond me.

Mike.

pp4mnklinux · #10 Post by **pp4mnklinux** » Wed 16 Oct 2019, 05:29

musher0 wrote:I never said : you lied.
I said : that is weird for a PuppyLinux.

Run htop : it could probably provide a clue about this weirdness, it has a RAM column.

Plz, don't consider my comment related with yours... It's my way to express.

Have a nice day u all.

Lobster · #11 Post by **Lobster** » Wed 16 Oct 2019, 05:43

Ye mad/bad coded browsers swamp the memory. Iz a cache thing.

Ram in the Ram
It is Puppy dog sheep

Galbi · #12 Post by **Galbi** » Wed 16 Oct 2019, 11:51

musher0 · #13 Post by **musher0** » Wed 16 Oct 2019, 19:24

@galbi
What's a memory "slab"? One finds slabs in cemeteries...
"Here lies 1 Gb of RAM from musher0's PC... R.I.P."

It's from a dev at Facebook, so anyone's private informations
will be compromised right from the start!!!

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@pp4mnklinux:
Have you diagnosed your RAM with htop yet?

Galbi · #14 Post by **Galbi** » Wed 16 Oct 2019, 21:51

I don't know either, it's too much technical for me, but I think that if this new controller is going to finally reach the kernel, it will have to pass through the master chief (Linus T.) and the whole kernel team.

Let's see what happens.

Bye

musher0 · #15 Post by **musher0** » Thu 17 Oct 2019, 00:26

Thanks for the additional comment, Galbi.
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@pp4mnklinux:
A late thought -- I should have thought of suggesting this to you at the very beginning...

Did you run a RAM test on your original RAM?
There is one available from the BIOS
and
some distros offer it at boot
and
there are utilities such as memtester and memtest86 that can do this.
(Enter "memtester" in the Duck's search line and you'll find them.)

Those utilities take a good while to complete, but they diagnose if part of your RAM is
broken and where (the RAM addresses).

Maybe could have saved you a few dollars. I say this because if a RAM stick is bad,
the system skips it and goes to the next good one (I'm not absolutely sure, but I think
that is how it works on recent computers.)

IHTH.

Illutorium · #16 Post by **Illutorium** » Mon 21 Oct 2019, 05:13

Old version as FatDog64-721 are be a Last good who doesn't lags while of RAMdisk.
When I knowed only on FatDog anyway... - Newest versions does lags of 1,11GB use per 1,89GB (x5-Z8350|HDMI Stick) so: Old versions > New versions
Now I have a Optiplex 3020 SFF (Last good Model of a Low Price) and I do be Frugal Install to FatDog64 on USB 3.1 stick (32GB)...

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