I'm not saying there's no such thing as software bloat (there is) but the reason that your computer magically always seems to use 80-90% of the ram no matter how much ram you install is that the computer understands empty ram doesn't do anything but ram being used to cache files makes your user experience much faster
this is a good thing! if your computer stopped doing this everything would suddenly feel very sluggish and stuttery!
@0xabad1dea I’ve had many conversations with ops people about memory alerting on my database servers.
“Do you want this alert threshold at 80%?”
“No, I don’t care about memory alerting. Just alert if there’s excess swap.”
“But you also want to know if it’s out of RAM right?”
“If we’re using all the RAM without swap, this means we’re tuned optimally. Just alert on excess swap usage.”
@bedast @0xabad1dea one of the most tedious things about running monitoring systems is teaching sysadmins how to properly monitor.
“You have to disable traps, we have a switch port that’s oscillating between on and off 4 times a second, the EMAIL”
“Or you could ignore the email, disable the port and then replace that module with a new one. Once the port is disabled the email volume drops *dramatically*”
We disabled traps.
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