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   CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 02:03:42 JST CrunkLord420

   • cool_boy_mew
   @coolboymew reminder that people complain about RAM usage without considering that space-time tradeoff, how cheap RAM actually is. Using RAM is a good thing and more programs should aggressively cache stuff in memory, and not be constantly trying to shrink it's memory usage through freeing.
   
   If anything, the complaint about Chrome is that it aggressively caches stuff to disk, even when you have 64GB of RAM. It's constantly beating on SSDs, causing them to lose electrons.
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     Mitch Conner (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 04:52:03 JST Mitch Conner

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     @mischievoustomato @crunklord420 @coolboymew i deleted the low effort one
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@marsey.moe)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 04:52:04 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @crunklord420 @coolboymew @olmitch tru. I'd run xfs on a server
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     CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 04:52:05 JST CrunkLord420

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     @mischievoustomato @coolboymew @olmitch I only use btrfs on my desktops. I use ext4 on servers because I'm way more conservative/traditional on servers. Plus on a server you're probably going to be running a DB and you don't want a CoW filesystem for that, you'd have to nocow the directory anyways if you created a DB.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@marsey.moe)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 04:52:06 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @crunklord420 @coolboymew @olmitch do you use it on a desktop or a server?
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     CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 04:52:07 JST CrunkLord420

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     @mischievoustomato @coolboymew @olmitch in my benchmarking of zstd level 3 really is a sweet spot. 4 is way slower, and 1-2 are hardly faster. It's the reason it's the default, I guess.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@marsey.moe)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 04:52:07 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @crunklord420 @coolboymew @olmitch zamn. perhaps I'll increase it when I'm on a faster cpu whenever in the future
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@marsey.moe)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 04:52:08 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @crunklord420 @coolboymew @olmitch i use level one only because i don't really need more
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     Mitch Conner (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 04:52:09 JST Mitch Conner

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     @mischievoustomato @crunklord420 @coolboymew compressed btrfs whaaaat is it like how you could make more space on your hard drive magically in windows 2000? (But doing anything required like 20 seconds of grinding)
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     CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 04:52:09 JST CrunkLord420

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     @olmitch @mischievoustomato @coolboymew I use zstd:3 compression with btrfs and it works pretty well. It does save a ton space if you're dealing with lots of text files like source code.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@marsey.moe)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 04:52:10 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @crunklord420 @coolboymew hM. i use btrfs with compression so the impact should be less. I don't worry about ram usage much because of tweaks i got
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     CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 09:25:36 JST CrunkLord420

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     @Skoll3 @coolboymew a web browser is not a tertiary program. It is often the central program that the operating system exists to run. The idea that chromium allocates huge blobs of OS heap memory and does it's own internal allocation should be a given. This isn't a bad thing.
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     Casually running on stock! (skoll3@nixnet.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 09:25:38 JST Casually running on stock!

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     @crunklord420 @coolboymew it is a neat paradigm
     
     Until multi-tasking hits
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     Casually running on stock! (skoll3@nixnet.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 13:09:45 JST Casually running on stock!

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     @crunklord420 @coolboymew i concede for general smartphone usecase considering most apps are mere webview and practical multitasking are not as prevalent
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     Casually running on stock! (skoll3@nixnet.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 13:10:12 JST Casually running on stock!

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     @crunklord420 @coolboymew unfortunately you are right
     
     There are however many many use cases in which browser doing memory allocation by itself is determinal to a workflow
     
     Other resource hungry programs also commonly used
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