Re: [gentoo-user] System crash, more than once. Out of memory problem.

2018-11-27 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 6:16 PM Alan Grimes wrote: >> Programmers these days don't seem to have any concept that memory is >> finite and that it's usage should be optimized. =| >> > I have it on good authority that unused memory is wasted memory. It > is a good thing that I

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash, more than once. Out of memory problem.

2018-11-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 6:16 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > > Programmers these days don't seem to have any concept that memory is > finite and that it's usage should be optimized. =| > I have it on good authority that unused memory is wasted memory. It is a good thing that I never run more than one pr

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash, more than once. Out of memory problem.

2018-11-26 Thread Alan Grimes
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Things I've done based on what I've noticed while sitting at the > system.  I noticed with the newer Firefox versions, the multi-process > ones, that it can hog up a TON of memory.  Sometimes I wonder if it is > trying to download the entire internet or something into memor

[gentoo-user] System crash, more than once. Out of memory problem.

2018-11-26 Thread Dale
Howdy, I've ran into this more than once here lately.  It's starting to get on my nerves.  As some know, I reboot when power fails and generally not before.  If I'm not sitting at my system, it's downloading stuff, usually videos or something.  Plus I watch TV from it as well.  At this point, some