• Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    The salt on the wound is when people say “unused RAM is wasted RAM”, which is true, but often used incorrectly:

    “”“unused”“” memory is used by filesystem caches, and when an application allocates and writes 10x the memory it needs to, the OS cannot use it for caches anymore - thus wasting it.

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      5 hours ago

      100% this.

      If every software maker generalized the principle of unused ram is wasted ram, I would be allowed to keep only one program open on my computer. Because each application must consume all of it for… I don’t know. Showing me a webview of a text box that has a glowing ring for no reason or something stupid like that.

      This isn’t even getting into how cache locality in memory is a performance consideration, or how every software maker is EXTERNALIZING their costs onto users, making us buy more capable hardware to keep up with their software.

      All so I can do the same shit I did 10 years ago: send messages, view pictures and videos.