Why do I use so much ram at idle (Debian 12 + KDE)?
by Humblenoise4 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6J7T8)
Hello,
I installed Debian 12 with the KDE desktop environment a few days ago. I am using the sweet global theme and I have a few widgets installed.
One thing I've been kind of surprised at is that it uses a lot of ram. I also understand that I am not using the most lightweight setup and I don't mind to use some ram to make things pretty and convenient. But I idle at 3 gigs with basically nothing open (see images), which is, like, windows-level. Is that normal? I don't mind that much if it's how it's supposed to be, but I just want to be sure that there's not something funky going on. I have linked some screenshots of the system monitor for reference.
https://imgur.com/a/zX2Zs4Y
Thank you.
I installed Debian 12 with the KDE desktop environment a few days ago. I am using the sweet global theme and I have a few widgets installed.
One thing I've been kind of surprised at is that it uses a lot of ram. I also understand that I am not using the most lightweight setup and I don't mind to use some ram to make things pretty and convenient. But I idle at 3 gigs with basically nothing open (see images), which is, like, windows-level. Is that normal? I don't mind that much if it's how it's supposed to be, but I just want to be sure that there's not something funky going on. I have linked some screenshots of the system monitor for reference.
https://imgur.com/a/zX2Zs4Y
Thank you.