• JGrffn@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Can’t relate, just upgraded my laptop from 32GB to 64GB since VScode would keep closing due to OOM. What? Oh, no, it’s not vscode’s fault…I keep like 5 Firefox windows with 30+ tabs open, like a fucking maniac… Close them? What do you mean “close” them?

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      2 months ago

      No need to convince me. I will always believe people complaining about garbage electron apps.
      That being said, I use vscodium myself and actually like it. Does not mean I won’t complain tho

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        2 months ago

        I had around 1500 open tabs in Firefox. It was fine. I figured enough was enough and closed them all. Now I close all tabs at the end of the day before shutting down.

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            2 months ago

            Wait, do people shut down their computers when they’re done using them?

            I know I did on the desktop PC we had at home when I was a kid… But now the desktop doubles as a homeserver (and does that more than it does gaming lately) and the laptop just goes to sleep rather than shutting it down.

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              2 months ago

              I have a separate home server, so I don’t have a reason to not shut down my desktop PC. No reason for it to be using electricity while it’s doing nothing.

              I shut down my laptop because suspend/sleep support on Linux still isn’t great.

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        2 months ago

        I was about to reply to the same thing to another comment about 300 tabs, LOL

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      2 months ago

      You only need 1 tab to OOM if that tab is Jira. I’ve literally had tabs take up more than 10GB.

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      2 months ago

      When I started hitting OOMs I just downloaded free ram.

      (Modifying my zram-generator config to use 1.5x my ram size instead of the measly 4GB – uncompressed – default. Seriously it’s worth looking into, though default depends on your distro)

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        1 month ago

        Can’t you just add swap?

        I think you can run some apps purely on swap and keep your ram for vscode only

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          1 month ago

          zram is swap on ram, it works by compressing parts of the ram when you run low and it’s much faster than traditional disk-based swap.