Questions for OS Techs wrt Memory Usage [View all]
I was curious about which programs take up the most memory in my PC. Surprised to see Google Drive and Dropbox accts uses a combined 400MB of constant memory allocation.
I would have thought that far less would be needed in "standby" mode. Any reason why so much real estate is needrd in my PC?
My browser Opera is hogging 360MB, 8 processes. Again, it's in standby...why should it take up so much space? Just opened Chrome and it automatically loads a constant 250MB with 12 processes running. And I haven't even starting using the program.
That's 1 gig of memory allocated for these 4 programs. Another 237 processes running totally 4.6 GB. Luckily, I have plenty of memory - 16GBs - so it's not an issue now. It was an issue on my last desktop when I only had 4GB and running all of the same apps.....very slow.
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