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@nixCraft Chrome's memory usage is suspiciously low 😂
@vervain @nixCraft
It's % from 128GB and the Chrome is just freshly started.
@vervain @nixCraft
It was exited 10 minutes ago.
@nixCraft When I saw this, I immediately re-imagined a much more sinister version having to do with the Linux Out-of-Memory killer (https://linuxhandbook.com/oom-killer/).
What is Out of Memory Killer (OOM Killer) in Linux?

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@nixCraft if this was Windows then it would be a selfie taken by TaskManager
@nixCraft nah, there are at least 4 instances of chrome running and hoarding memory. Those should be depicted as 4 monsters in a Tux costume. 

@nixCraft

You are da bomb for grokking the fullness.

@nixCraft I like btop. It looks like what computer screens look like in movies when something serious is happening. I like to maximize a terminal window on a large screen, run btop, and say something like "It looks like I need to metastasize the code repositories!"
@gpilz @nixCraft i usually install htop. it's funny too because a lot of times htop is the top cpu consumer...
@nixCraft Java consumes more resources than chrome?