Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On Sat, 1 Aug 2026 07:53:09 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> The Natural Philosopher wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):
> 
>> On 31/07/2026 17:54, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>> Why would I, when it takes about ten seconds to boot?
>>> 
>>> Cleans out the kruft 🙂
>>
>> I generally find closing Firefox does that on mine
>>
>> It is a memory hog.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Otoh, the always-on mini PC would use up all the RAM and the swap and
> then go nuts trying to clean it up.
> 
> Finally traced it to picom (compositor). It's got major memory leaks.
> Restarting it would clean out gigabtyes worth.
> 
> I got tired of doing it manually (or forgetting to do it), so made a
> cron job that runs at 2 AM.
> 
> Why do I put up with picom? I find it helpful in my workflow.

I use Brave and very seldom bring up FF. With 16 tabs, T-Bird, Pan, Code, 
and Calibre open 8705672 is used with 6542296 available. The only one I 
have to watch is the netbook but it only has 4 GB.