I'm wondering what kind of memory usage is considered normal these days. I'm using the ps_mem.py script to get the numbers. Here are the top offenders: 42.6 MiB + 768.0 KiB = 43.4 MiB transmission-gtk ...

Even if you're just a casual follower of tech news, you can't have missed that the amount of video memory (VRAM) on a graphics card is a hot topic right now. We've seen indications that 8GB may not be ...

Let’s look at some basic commands that report on memory usage. The first that probably comes to mind is free. The free command will tell you about used and unused memory and about swap space. Physical ...

Windows 11 ships with many new features and improvements compared to earlier versions of Windows, of which most, if not all, are heavy on system resources. Probably the reason why Microsoft is ...

Let’s say you’ve built a home server with your dream components and armed it with everybody's favorite virtualization platform, Proxmox. The next course of action is to deploy a multitude of LXCs and ...

Not every slow computer needs a hardware upgrade. Sometimes, the system lags during normal use because of unnecessary startup programs, older apps running in the background, or inefficient browser ...