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I also don't understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.
18gb is nothing, my Firefox regularly eats 70gb (30gb is the normal load I see after browser restart) 
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Browser restart means without any tabs? If so that is some concern
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~19 Gb firefox
Tf you doing
The about:processes page doesn't even add up close to that:
Then it's just a bug I guess
Or someone is getting very rich in bitcoin right now
Someone else pointed out cached RAM is shown as used in Linux, so Firefox is probably showing actual usage and the process list probably includes the RAM cached for Firefox.
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Most RAM Linux reports as in used is actually used as disc cache to speed up the IO.
Well having 64GB RAM has been a huge boost to how fast everything feels so this checks out.
I remember having 64kb, and it was large...
I don't remember those days. I used Windows 3.1 (with DOS for games) at a relatives house, but it was too early for me to understand about the hardware. We also had some Apple computers at school with I think 5 1/4" floppy disks but again I didn't really get technically savvy until I was older.
The first PC we had at home was Windows 95. I seem to recall we had a pretty decent amount of RAM. Maybe 32MB or perhaps even 64MB.
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I had a power surge last night, desktop didn't even flinch.
Me when I load some big matrices