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I'm Not a Programmer, but Here’s Why Linux Is My Daily Driver
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2024
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I'm not sure a modern day browser would be just fine with "only" 2GiB, unfortunately.
I've tried Firefox limited to 1 GB for a laugh. It's usable. It won't do many tabs at the same time but it's usable.
You can actually go lower than that but you'll start to run into limitations with YouTube videos etc.
There are also other browsers out there that are more light-weight but perhaps not as feature-full as Firefox. Giving up extensions alone reduces a lot of complexity. If you fire up the package installer on any Linux distro and search for "browser" you'll find a ton. There aren't many engines but there are a lot of browsers.
Interesting. How do you limit RAM for an application?
With cgroups, it's a standard kernel feature. You can limit RAM, CPU, network access, lots of things. It's used in Docker, LXC, Kubernetes and lots of container solutions.
Cool, thank you!