This is with nothing open. How the fuck am I supposed to work on here. Defiantly won't be firing up any VMs

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Yes, it's all background crap, no I can't close any of it. Yes, I have rebooted

Fill the other slot.

The background crap should give way if there is something else open.

@electrineer Yea I'm putting in a request. This is a work machine. Personal machine a, has 16GB, b, doesn't have centrally managed background crap being forced down my throat

8GB doesn't go as far as it used too.
Anything under 16GB is pointless anymore.

My work machine idles at 15gb with 2 active VMs.

@C0D4 disclaimer: on windows

I'm idling at 13.6gb and I haven't even done anything but devRant yet.

Get yourself some more ram.

Sounds like Windows problems.

manager: I don't know about you but 8 gigs were enough for me. Why would you need more?
(only uses jira, meetings,
haven't opened an IDE in ages)

* laughs at your problems with 3 different IDEs and a dozen windows of Chrome with at least a dozen tabs open in each + the memory-hoggy Firefox Dev Edition and much more running non-stop since months and still got memory to spare from 8gb *

@100110111 I bet those IDEs aren't eclipse

@coffeeholic yeah no. Hell to the nope. I must admit, if I fired up Android Studio or Unity on top of this, might actually go over 8gb.... the same on a Windows tho, and I’d have ran out of 16gb halfway through by now

What the heck is running in the background? I admit I'm on Linux and not Windows so the memory usage is probably better, but with Firefox, Chromium, and VSCode all open, I'm just barely over 5 GB. Firefox has a stupidly huge number of open tabs, too. And I'm using KDE Plasma, which is a big and bloated DE on its own. With nothing open I idle around 1.2 GB.

@EmberQuill I have no idea. Dell Support Optimizer and fuck knows what else. I have this weird semi evelated access level where I can open task manager but can't kill processes. I've requested foll admin rights but my manager is on leave until Monday so I'll have to stick this out until then

@TheBeardedOne Ahhh, it's a company laptop. Makes sense then. Probably running a fuckton of background monitoring and security programs that eat up all your RAM.

@EmberQuill yea the one thing I miss about the small company I worked at briefly in the past (overall just wasn't a good fit) is that there was none of this centrally managed crap

@TheBeardedOne The company I currently work for recently switched to a different endpoint security suite, because the one we were using before would periodically spike CPU usage to 100% across all cores whenever it contacted the central management server, making the machine almost completely unusable for several minutes straight.

@EmberQuill first place I worked we had days where we couldn't work because McAfee was just like "We encrypting your drive today and we using the all the resources"

@AtuM I’m doing fine on my other machine too, with only 8gb memory and with linux on it. And that one I’m using for audio, video and graphics stuff in addition to developing. Just don’t use badly written memory hoggy sw ;)