kde sure is hungry for ram

@icedquinn
It used to be in the olden days, but it's not as bad now... unless you're really low on ram and need every mb you can get free.

@alyx it was up to 10gb and 50gb cache

now i have the memory so maybe it's just wasting more of it because it can. i dunno. i would be a little spooked to run it on 8gb RAM though considering how just plasma with firefox and one tab open already blew it to 2gb.

i'm used to running like, i3 or cinnamon where its maybe 500mb or less. (actually i3 alone is even less than that...)

@icedquinn
> just plasma with firefox and one tab open already blew it to 2gb.
You're mistaken. You definitely have stuff running in the background that you're not accounting for. I'm saying that because I see something similar. I boot, open Vivaldi and have 2gb or ram usage. But then I also have qbittorrent, syncthing, yakuake, polycromatic, kup and who knows what else running at startup.

So either your Firefox uses up tons of more memory than my Vivaldi (which I doubt), or you've got stuff running on startup that you've forgotten to account for.