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How to clean RAM after closing programs?
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pp4mnklinux
 Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 277 |
Hello everybody: I have got CONKY installed on my pc, so I have a bar showing how many RAM I am using each moment. When I have a lot of programs opened (22 browsers tabs and 3 browsers, the gimp, openshot....) some times my puppy hangs on, becaus all the RAM is bussy. I can use th mouse because it doesn't respond my orders, so.... HOW CAN I RECOVER RAM CLOSING ALL PROGRAMS? HAVE A NICE DAY. THANKY FOR YOUR ANSWERS. XENIAL PUP 7.5 X64 _________________ Distro: xenialpup64 7.5 XXL Desktop Panel: JWM ~ FbBox 5.0 |
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nic007
 Joined: 13 Nov 2011 Posts: 2754 Location: Cradle of Humankind |
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches BTW - You need to use a swapfile or swap partition if you don't have enough RAM. |
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Mike Walsh
 Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 4618 Location: King's Lynn, UK. |
@ pp4mnklinux:- Totally 'off-topic', I know, but..... I can't quite figure this out. I occasionally have two browsers open, myself.....but three..??? The way browser developers are going these days, browsers are becoming enormous pieces of software; they easily consume the largest individual chunk of your RAM, whenever they are open. Take Nic's advice by all means.....but you may want to re-think your usage patterns. Some of this sounds like it's self-inflicted, y'know. Mike. 
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rufwoof
Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 2804 |
Hi Mike. If you have lots of tabs open then the tabs can become unreadable. For instance I'm running iridium and the tabs compress down narrower and narrower the more that are opened. Opening a second/third browser instance and spreading the tabs out across those helps. Or you might want to group tabs and do so via having separate browser sessions running. Also for some services a simple text browser might suffice, news or IRC etc. Image is a clickable thumbnail of when I move the mouse into the bottom left corner (skippy-xd window selector) ... three browser sessions each with multiple tabs. Clicking any one presents that full screen and I can then click the desired tab within that as desired 
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d_vineet
 Joined: 06 Aug 2018 Posts: 116 Location: Bharat |
If you wish to 'kill' all programs, you may try 'Menu' -- 'Utility' -- XKill. I don't know whether or not you can click on menu (since you mentioned that the mouse is unresponsive, but you can move it). It is not quite clear to me. You may also post here your h/w specs (esp. physical memory), how many tabs are open at a time. Just now I tried opening multiple tabs on my lappy. Chromium - 15 tabs. Iridium - 15 tabs. Firefox - 15 tabs. (and task manager). Memory used is 1123 MB. (content is not loaded in some tabs though. If loaded, the RAM usage will increase accordingly).[/img]
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Flash
Official Dog Handler  Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 13173 Location: Arizona USA |
Rather than start a whole new instance of the browser, I open a new window in the browser (File -> New -> Browser Window). That shows up in the tray at the bottom, gives me more room for tabs and, I assume, uses less of my computer's resources than starting another instance of the browser. Am I wrong? |
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rufwoof
Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 2804 |
On mine, starting a new instance or starting a new window doesn't seem to make any difference as to how much additional ram is used. _________________ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) :wq |
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pp4mnklinux
Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 277 |
thanky, I have enought ram for normal use .- 4gb, but I need to recover it at specific times THANKY _________________ Distro: xenialpup64 7.5 XXL Desktop Panel: JWM ~ FbBox 5.0 |
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pp4mnklinux
Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 277 |
HELLO EVERYBODY: I WAS WORKING HARD WITH MY PC in order to send u a screen with my use of the computer, when it blocked again. I found that the problem is not the RAM, but a scrip which hang on the computer. I send two screens, hosted at google drive https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipOLHzZz3IB_u1FPGYZPTd6wRrFo57E4BAAmkS6V https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipMk7B7NDMFNuOXvZaU8b4YDc_tSOPSp17lwyop5 thanky _________________ Distro: xenialpup64 7.5 XXL Desktop Panel: JWM ~ FbBox 5.0 |
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ITSMERSH
 Joined: 02 May 2018 Posts: 826 |
May be you should get a hobby in real life?
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Mike Walsh
Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 4618 Location: King's Lynn, UK. |
No, I believe you're right, Flash. I do very much the same thing when I run Netflix in its own, separate window (essentially turning that one tab into its own 'app', which you can do with Chrome.) In fact, I've set-up a script that starts Netflix by itself, in its own window, without opening the actual browser.....and started by a Menu entry for ease of use. That way, you essentially replace the opening of the 'app' from the Apps page. Unfortunately, although you can watch Netflix in Firefox these days, you can't do this particular 'trick' with it. That's a Chrome-only 'special'. I've had this open at the same time as Chrome itself being open, and the increase in RAM/thread usage (as measured by gKrellM, and xload in the 'tray'), is negligible. Mike.
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linuxcbon
Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 1235 |
@pp4mnklinux : use palemoon, it should use less ram than chrome or firefox |
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Flash
Official Dog Handler Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 13173 Location: Arizona USA |
It may depend on the browser you're using. I use SeaMonkey. Mike Walsh uses Chrome. |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 13499 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hello pp4mnklinux. To come back to your question in the title of this thread: "How to clean RAM after closing programs?", I don't know about gimp, etc., but for the browsers: browsers have a setting in their config panel to purge their cache(s) when you close them. Set that to yes, and you'll have an easy, no-fuss, automatic, way to clean a big part of your RAM. IHTH. _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ Je suis né pour aimer et non pas pour haïr. (Sophocle) / I was born to love and not to hate. (Sophocles) |
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rufwoof
Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 2804 |
I'm running iridium - a chrome derivative. Chrome has better security (process/privilege separation, with around 6 or 7 processes and tasks appropriately allocated within that, FF (of which seamonkey is a derivative) use just two)). Under OpenBSD (that I run), chrome is Pledged i.e. the code has been adapted so that it better ensures the browser stays within what it is expected to do/access. From a usage angle that is more annoying as you can get the Aw-Snap "crash" relatively often depending upon what web sites you visit (yahoo news is common aw-snap, reload culprit). Of the two, the FF code is more entangled/complex, so I wouldn't be surprised if additional instances involved eating more memory. Under OBSD FF hasn't been Pledged as of yet due to the code complexities, whereas for chrome Pledging was relatively quick/simple. Chrome -> Chromium -> Iridium ... in effect reduces the amount of google data gathering (OBSD adds to that by refining the code to make it more secure). Lean/simpler code often leads to less/better memory utilisation. I most certainly do notice much better response times when using google services such as googledocs under iridium compared to FF - but wouldn't be surprised if that was a server side intentional thing - for instance I believe if you try to access googledocs using IE it will prompt you to use another 'better' browser (inhibiting the competition to promote their own). To add to what has gone before to free pagecache ... echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches to free inodes ... echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches to free pagecache and inodes: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches to clear swap swapoff -a && swapon -a ... so as a single line script type action the OP might perhaps want to run something like #!/bin/sh echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && swapoff -a && swapon -a _________________ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) :wq |
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