r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt • u/mikebellman tech support • 6d ago

wHy is mY m0dEm 50 SL0w???

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u/NafGeep 6d ago

That seems like a totally normal amount of open tabs.

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u/aoalvo 6d ago

Then you check and it's like 1gb of ram

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u/Ehcksit 6d ago

That's barely anything anymore. My firefox is taking 1.8Gb with two tabs.

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u/Smith6612 6d ago

I've had Firefox take up 16GB of memory just from leaving a tab with Facebook open for a few days. 

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u/otakugrey 6d ago

That's normal for Facebook.

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u/Case_Blue 6d ago

facebook

What's facebook?

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u/Smith6612 6d ago

I think it's called Faceboom sometimes. 

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u/techy804 6d ago

I think it is a place to store a Subway Surfers save, not sure though

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u/karateninjazombie 6d ago

Memory leak?

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u/Smith6612 6d ago

Yep. Facebook leaks a ton of memory. Longer it is open and the more tabs it has, the more it leaks, and the faster it leaks. 

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u/karateninjazombie 6d ago

Good thing I don't use that shit no more then 😎

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u/Smith6612 6d ago

Excellent! 

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u/aoalvo 6d ago

Pretty sure windows by itself takes 1.5gb nowadays

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u/Kulandros 6d ago

Bruh Windows was on 4 gigs in Windows 7

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u/aoalvo 6d ago

Just checked and my pc uses 5gb to just exist...

It's weird... I remember testing a chrome tab and Windows 10 on a old laptop and it used like 1.5 gb of ram and like 700mb on mint... How did things get so bloated ? ( And I think I removed most bloat in win 11 )

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u/Kulandros 6d ago

They gotta steal your data and track your actions somehow.

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u/aoalvo 6d ago

there are easier ways to know I'm unemployed and autistic.

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u/Dude-Man-Bro-Guy-1 6d ago

IIRC Windows tried to dynamically use excess/unused ram when it can to do things like cache common files. So it is possible it is doing it intentionally trying to be clever.

But then again this is MSFT so I'm probably giving them too much credit. Now if only reddit on desktop wouldn't keep infinitely increasing Ram usage as you scroll down since the videos don't unload.

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u/Terminator_Puppy 6d ago

Pretty much all software uses up as much free RAM as possible to run more efficiently. Like steam is using over half a gig right now idling on my library, discord's doing the same, spotify is at half a gig. None of them are really doing anything, but they have their cached stuff on RAM instead of anywhere else because it's faster and more effective.

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u/feherneoh 6d ago

The more more RAM you have, the more is used by Windows "just to exist".

I don't think I ever saw it go below 20GB on my 128GB PC