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    [–] JGrffn@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (9 children)

    Can't relate, just upgraded my laptop from 32GB to 64GB since VScode would keep closing due to OOM. What? Oh, no, it's not vscode's fault.....I keep like 5 Firefox windows with 30+ tabs open, like a fucking maniac..... Close them? What do you mean "close" them?

    [–] cymor@midwest.social 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Only 30 tabs, you need to bump those numbers up!

    [–] dan@upvote.au 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    I had around 1500 open tabs in Firefox. It was fine. I figured enough was enough and closed them all. Now I close all tabs at the end of the day before shutting down.

    [–] davad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
    [–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Wait, do people shut down their computers when they're done using them?

    I know I did on the desktop PC we had at home when I was a kid... But now the desktop doubles as a homeserver (and does that more than it does gaming lately) and the laptop just goes to sleep rather than shutting it down.

    [–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    I have a separate home server, so I don't have a reason to not shut down my desktop PC. No reason for it to be using electricity while it's doing nothing.

    I shut down my laptop because suspend/sleep support on Linux still isn't great.

    [–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

    I was about to reply to the same thing to another comment about 300 tabs, LOL

    [–] expr@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago

    You only need 1 tab to OOM if that tab is Jira. I've literally had tabs take up more than 10GB.

    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

    No need to convince me. I will always believe people complaining about garbage electron apps.
    That being said, I use vscodium myself and actually like it. Does not mean I won't complain tho

    [–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago

    When I started hitting OOMs I just downloaded free ram.

    (Modifying my zram-generator config to use 1.5x my ram size instead of the measly 4GB – uncompressed – default. Seriously it's worth looking into, though default depends on your distro)

    [–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Get sideberry, it allows you to "sleep" unused tabs

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    It does that by default though?

    [–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Idk, I think it's more proactive and more customizable

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

    Firefox puts inactive tabs to sleep, effectively turning them into bookmarks that reload when you switch back to them. I regularly right-click close-tabs-to-the-right over 200 tabs.

    [–] lelgenio@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

    I think there's still something wrong with your setup.... You should be able to have as many Firefox windows and tabs as you'd like without using too much RAM, since they should de "suspended".

    I regularly have hundreds of tabs running fine, on 32GB of RAM.

    Most likely it's a vscode extension that's leaking memory, and this problem will still happen after your upgrade, just take longer.

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

    I mean, I doubt Kate or Geany or Vim would've closed due to OOM, but sure...

    [–] shadowfax13@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

    same with intellij