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Why does open source take up so much memory space on Macos (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by 3yiyo3@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I have macbook air with M1 chip, I wish I could change to linux but unfortunately I cant so I try to stick as much as possible to using open source on macos. But i cant understand why FOSS apps take up so much space in memory. I'm even getting messages that says that I dont have space left in memory and i must close apps, and I thought that chip M1 was enough with 8gb of ram. I send a pic of my memory usage.

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[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Huh. It'd be interesting to see how much memory LibreOffice or some such takes on a Linux system.

I'd test myself, but I'm currently on a Raspberry Pi and my beefy box is a) off and b) all the way over there.

[-] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 11 months ago

I just opened an empty Writer document to check the RAM usage. On Fedora 39, it is using 161.0 MB. I opened an empty Calc, and the RAM usage increased to 223.9 MB.